Located in Tuas, in southwestern Singapore, Singapore Lube Park, the first shared lubricants facility in the Asia-Pacific, opened last Thursday. Estimated to cost approximately a half a billion dollars, the Lube Park is a joint venture between Shell Eastern Petroleum, Sinopec Lubricant (Singapore) and Total Oil Asia-Pacific.

LANXESS' Rhein Chemie Additives business unit has expanded its capacities for light-colored sulfur carriers at its sites in Mannheim, Germany, and Kallo, Belgium. Light-colored sulfur carriers are used as additives in formulating metalworking fluids and gear oils that ensure good lubrication between metal surfaces at very high pressures.

An official groundbreaking ceremony for a new lube blending plant of PJSC LUKOIL, Russia's largest private oil company, was held on March 19 in Kazakhstan. The capacity of the plant, which will be completed in 2016, will be 100,000 tons a year with an option to increase output up to 130,000 tons a year.

A used oil recycling plant, 'Prista Recycling', opened recently in Uzbekistan. The project, a result of the joint venture 'Uz - Prista Recycling', includes Bulgarian company 'Prista Recycling' with 51% and 'Uznefteprodukt' with 49%. The plant is designed to process 40 000 tons of waste oil annually, producing up to 30 000 tons of fresh base oils.

ExxonMobil has developed a new lubricant for refrigeration compressors using carbon dioxide. Formulated using a polyol ester technology (POE), Mobil SHC Gargoyle 80 POE aims to takes advantage of the growing use of carbon dioxide as a refrigerant. ExxonMobil predicts carbon dioxide will be one of the main industrial refrigerants by 2020.

Subaru of America has agreed to resolve a claim that alleges certain Subaru vehicles may experience oil consumption "beyond expectation". The company has extended the powertrain warranty from 5 years, 60,000 miles to 8 years, 100,000 miles, whichever comes first, for 665,730 Subaru models from 2011 to 2015.

• San Joaquin Increases Its Naphthenic Base Oil Prices, Light Viscosities Including 500 SUS by 15 CPG and Heavy Grades by 20 CPG, Effective Today, May 30
• Chevron Increases Prices of Its Group II 100R, 220R and 600R by 20 CPG, Effective May 25
• Chemlube Increases Its Savannah Finished Lubricant Prices by 6 to 10%, Effective June 6
• Mobil Jet Oil 387 Approved for Use in Rolls-Royce Trent 700, Trent 800, RB211-524 and RB211-535 Engines
• Chevron Oronite to Exhibit and Present at CIMAC World Congress 2016