United Kingdom-based lubricant additive manufacturer Infineum signed a supply agreement with Chinese additive component producer Rianlon for the Asia- ...

Electric vehicle manufacturers have a big wishlist for the next generation of driveline fluids — copper compatibility, copper protection, improved ...

With few definite indications whether lubricant demand will strengthen in the next few weeks, Asian buyers have taken a wait-and-see approach and were ...

The geography, quality and scale of global base oil supply has fundamentally changed over the past two decades. Global production capacity has swollen ...

Are we close to the long-anticipated point where chemical safety laws and market expectations become incompatible at an accessible cost? Lubricant for ...

Trading in Asia’s base oils market was expected to pick up the pace against a background of growing geopolitical tensions on several fronts. Some of ...

Languid buying appetite and ample supplies continued to exert downward pressure on spot prices in Asian base oil markets. Buyers who were holding adeq ...

Aster Chemicals and Energy will fork out U.S.$155 million to upgrade its refinery on Pulau Bukom in Singapore, the company said Dec. 9.  

Vietnamese lubricant company NPOil broke ground on a second lubricant blending plant expected to boost the company’s exports to Southeast Asia, Sout ...

The last month of the year was expected to bring fairly muted activity in base oil markets as both consumers and suppliers hope to reach the end of De ...

Spot prices for some base oil cuts succumbed to downward pressure on mounting availability, while other grades managed to maintain a steady course as ...

Market forces continued to pull prices in different directions in Asia, with tighter supplies of some grades supporting steady-to-firm prices, and len ...

Lubrizol and Aster, a Singaporean chemical and energy company, signed a memorandum of understanding to develop opportunities in the region, the compan ...

Lingering uncertainties continued to impact lubricant and finished products demand in Asia, and this, in turn, affected base oil consumption, as buyer ...

Some markets were expected to jump back into action following week-long holidays and others were preparing for subdued activities due to the start of ...

Pertamina said it has redirected fuel supplies to parts of Sumatra following a fire at its Dumai refinery.

There were a few bright spots in the market despite deepening concerns about the growing supply and demand imbalance in some base oil segments. The la ...

Downward price pressure continued on a few base oil grades because of soft fundamentals in Asia, although several cuts appeared to defy the current tr ...

The just-completed expansion of ExxonMobil’s base oil plant on Singapore’s Jurong Island makes it the largest such facility in the world – by fa ...