Plants & Equipment

What Gets Measured, Gets Improved

What Gets Measured, Gets Improved

September 4, 2025

An Operations Excellence Practitioner’s Perspective  Annual medical checkups are a common part of life these d ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants Expands Blending Plants

Gulf Oil Lubricants Expands Blending Plants

August 27, 2025

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. announced recently that it will expand both of its finished lubricant blending plants in ...

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ExxonMobil to Make Group III at Baytown

August 27, 2025

ExxonMobil announced Wednesday that it will upgrade the base oil plant at its Baytown, Texas, refinery, giving it capaci ...

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Explosion at Louisiana Lubricant Blender

August 24, 2025

A series of explosions ripped through Smitty’s Supply, a lubricant blender and distributor based in Roseland, Louisian ...

Luberef Earnings Sag, S-Oil Rebounds

Luberef Earnings Sag, S-Oil Rebounds

August 6, 2025

Two of Saudi Aramco’s base oil refiners posted their H1 results.

Chinese Firm to Build Zambia Refinery and Blending Plant

Chinese Firm to Build Zambia Refinery and Blending Plant

July 23, 2025

Zambia has signed a $1.1 billion agreement with China’s Fujian Xiang Xin to build a major oil refinery in Ndola, with ...

New Blending Capacity in Southern Vietnam 

New Blending Capacity in Southern Vietnam 

July 16, 2025

Vietnam’s Tay Sai Gon Group completed a blending plant in Long An province last month with capacity of 100 million ...

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Global Base Oil Production Capacity

July 9, 2025

Over the past two decades, the world’s mineral base oil refiners have gradually shifted away from API Group I producti ...

Petrobras to Raise Base Oil Output in Rio

Petrobras to Raise Base Oil Output in Rio

July 7, 2025

Petrobras plans to invest $6.07 billion in increasing refining and petrochemicals capacity.

HD Hyundai Shell Base Oil Moving into Group III

HD Hyundai Shell Base Oil Moving into Group III

June 25, 2025

HD Hyundai Shell Base Oil, a joint venture between HD Hyundai Oilbank and Shell, plans to expand its Daesan facility to ...

BPCL Tenders for New Lube Units at Bina Refinery

BPCL Tenders for New Lube Units at Bina Refinery

June 18, 2025

Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. intends to install a base oil unit and a finished lubricant blending plant at its refinery ...

Industry 4.0: The Lubricants Industry Enters the Digital World

Industry 4.0: The Lubricants Industry Enters the Digital World

June 5, 2025

The implementation of Industry 4.0 in automation technologies is expected to increase the need for lubricants in advance ...

Zeller+Gmelin Opens Lube Plant in China

Zeller+Gmelin Opens Lube Plant in China

June 3, 2025

Zeller+Gmelin, a chemical company based in Germany, has opened a lubricant production facility in Huzhou, China, as part ...

Ethanolamines Plant in Nanjing Back on in May

Ethanolamines Plant in Nanjing Back on in May

May 28, 2025

Operations at the joint BASF-Sinopec ethanolamines plant in Nanjing are expected to resume at the end of May.

Fuchs’ New Brazil Plant Signals Latin America Push

Fuchs’ New Brazil Plant Signals Latin America Push

May 28, 2025

Fuchs Petrolub SE, the German lubricants manufacturer, is investing more than 220 million Brazilian real (U.S.$39 millio ...

Luberef Replaces Catalyst Amid Lower Q1 Revenue

Luberef Replaces Catalyst Amid Lower Q1 Revenue

May 7, 2025

Saudi-based base oil producer Luberef completed the replacement of its hydrocracker catalyst at its Yanbu site.

Gazprom Opens White Oils Plant

Gazprom Opens White Oils Plant

May 7, 2025

Gazpromneft-Lubricants starts white oils production in Russia.