Adrian Brown is away.

The owner of a New York automotive lubricants distributorship pled guilty to grand larceny charges, admitting substitution of cheaper transmission fluid in place of the contracted Castrol product for New York City buses. Joseph Ioia, owner and CEO of New York Commercial Lubricants Inc. in Staten Island, pled guilty to grand larceny in the third degree, following an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney conducted with the Metropolitan Transportation Authoritys office of the Inspector G...

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency referred an enforcement action to the state attorney generals office against Olympic Oil Ltd. for causing an on-going release of petroleum products mixed with stormwater. On Aug. 22, Illinois EPA responded to a report of petroleum products being released from the Olympic facility in Cicero, Ill. An unknown amount of petroleum products from an unknown source at Olympics facility had migrated outside of an onsite containment structure and into the adjac...

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. will partner with a local blender to enter the finished lubricants market in October, an NNPC subsidiary official confirmed to Lube Report at the first Nigerian Lubricant Summit here. We are going into the lubricants business definitely, Chris Osarunwese, chief executive of subsidiary NNPC retail, told Lube Report on the sidelines of the recent Nigerian Lubricant Summit. We have an arrangement with a local blending plant which sources the ...

Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft signed a partnership with the countrys largest auto maker, Avtovaz, which includes factory fill, industrial lubes supply, and research and development. Under the deal, signed by Rosnefts head Igor Sechin and Avtovazs president Bo Inge Andersson, Rosneft will supply its line of products to Avtovaz. The deal is related to supply of Rosneft factory fill lubes and supply of finished products for Avtovazs industrial equipment and machines, according to Rosnefts A...