Press Releases

Shell Lubricants highlights its premium motorcycle oil in six Asian growth markets through its latest creative marketing campaign to reach today’s new motorcycle customers. The current number of motorcycles globally is 350 million and is expected to rise to 500 million by 2015. Today, motorcycle oils account for 3% of the global lubricants market and [...]

Leverkusen, Germany — LANXESS posted lower earnings in the first quarter of 2013 as expected due to a weak market environment, particularly in the tire and automotive industries. First-quarter sales were down by 12 percent year-on-year to EUR 2.1 billion, mainly due to lower volumes and fallen selling prices. EBITDA pre exceptionals moved back by [...]

San Ramon, California, USA – Chevron Oronite is steadily achieving milestones in four major capital projects. Collectively, these projects represent the company’s highest level of investment globally since the construction of its Singapore manufacturing facility in 1999 and also will significantly strengthen its supply chain and position Oronite for further growth. When combined with increases [...]

W. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., – ASTM International has released a new publication, Manual 58, Petroleum Refining and Natural Gas Process. This one-of-a-kind, comprehensive handbook provides the latest industry and research advances in petroleum refining, natural gas processing and refinery management. More than 40 scientists, experts and professionals from both academia and industry have contributed to the [...]

Sales of approximately €8.5 billion in 2012 from new products on the market for less than five years BASF takes first place in Patent Asset Index for fourth consecutive time BASF makes important contributions to the energy supply of today and the future Ludwigshafen, Germany – BASF had sales of approximately €8.5 billion in 2012 [...]

In connection with the 25th ELGI Annual General Meeting, Valentina became the first woman to be elected to the Board. The European Lubricating Grease Institute (ELGI) is an independent institute that is financed solely by its members. It is one of a number of scientific and technical institutes that operate in the field of tribology, [...]

Chevron Oronite recently announced that Ron Kiskis is retiring on August 31, 2013 after 13 years as the company’s president. During Kiskis’ tenure as president, the company demonstrated steady improvement in safe and reliable operations and achieved strong overall performance that has the company poised for growth, both in terms of developing new additive technology [...]

15th-21st, April 2013 – Total Lubrifiants attended 2013 BAUMA Exhibition held in Munich, Germany, jointly posing with SANY, which is the world leading Chinese-original manufacturer of construction machinery. As the main supplier of SANY genuine oil in China, Total has been devoting technical efforts to develop tailor-made cutting-edge lubricant products to meet increasingly demanding technical [...]

Infineum, one of the world leaders in the formulation, manufacture and marketing of petroleum additives for fuels and lubricants, is continuing its expansion in Asia Pacific with the signing of a lease agreement for a three-storey building for its proposed new Business and Technology Centre (BTC) in Jinqiao, Shanghai, China. The BTC is the latest [...]

19 April 2013 – The Gulf Oil International Group is celebrating the official opening of its new state-of-the-art blending plant in Argentina – the second new Gulf blending facility to open inside a month coming, as it does, hard on the heals of Gulf’s new facility in Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE. Some 38 [...]