LubesnGreases MagazinesMarch issue is now available online, free to readers worldwide.Highlights include: Europe’s Waste Oil Options: The EU says used oil should be recycled, not burned as fuel; rerefiners hope that will happen. Lubricating a Legend: It takes a boatload of lubricants to keep Carnival Cruises’ paradise afloat, without mechanical trouble. Mobil’s Coup: The highly competitive U.S. lubricant market says hello toExxonMobil’s “high endurance” oils...

Lubricant marketers – especially those that peddle passenger car motor oils – frequently complain that the general public knows little about their products. Now the industry has a chance to promote a better understanding of its wares, courtesy of public television. The Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association said yesterday that it is helping the producer of the public television series Learning About to develop educational programs about lubricants. The association said the p...

One worker was killed and another injured in an accident at Chevron Oronites lubricant additive factory on Jurong Island, Singapore, Sunday. The company said some manufacturing operations have been suspended pending an investigation and assessment of damage. The incident occurred in a manufacturing unit at approximately 4 p.m. local time, Oronite said, as employees unloaded phosphorus pentasulfide, a highly flammable chemical used as an intermediate in production of lube additives. Initial repor...

Nynas Naphthenics AB on Monday lifted a global force majeure declaration for transformer oils, issued 10 days earlier because of operational problems at its naphthenics base oil plant in Nynashamn, Sweden. Although it has not yet fixed the problem, an official said the company found a temporary solution, and the plant is again making products according to specification and at full capacity. Of course, this was not nice for our customers, Supply Chain Director Per Dahlstedt said. But we are glad ...

Move over Shell. Theres a new partnership in line to become the first large-scale producer of gas-to-liquids base oils. Sasol Chevron and Qatar Petroleum last week announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to build a base oil plant as an addition to the Oryx GTL plant now under construction at Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. The base oil plant will open during the first half of 2008, the companies said, moving it ahead of another Qatar Petroleum joint venture, with the Royal Dutc...