LUBRICANTS

  Volvo Cars announced on Tuesday that every new Volvo launched from 2019 onwards will feature an electric motor, marking the historic end of cars that only have an internal combustion engine (ICE) and placing electrification at the core of its future business. The announcement represents one of the most significant ...

(By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard/ NAN) No more petrol or diesel cars, buses, or trucks will be sold anywhere in the world within eight years. The entire market for land transport will switch to electrification, leading to a collapse of oil prices and the demise of the petroleum industry as we have known ...

Nigeria’s oil corporation, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has attributed the falling prices of diesel in the retail market across the country to what it described as the sustained strategic intervention by the corporation . A national survey by Oil and Gas Forum, NNPC’s weekly TV programme, indicated that in ...

Jetvan Automobiles Limited, Weststar’s sole dealer of Mercedes-Benz Sprinter buses in Nigeria, on Thursday, announced a 50 percent service discount on labour and diagnostics for its customers on Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans brought for after-sales service at the company in the week running to the end of Ramadan. The Managing Director, ...

A new wave piston design which lowers fuel consumption in engines of Volvo trucks has won the Volvo Technology Award 2017. The engineers behind the innovation have also been honoured for the design which added waves to the piston crown to improve the use of oxygen thus enabling the Group’s ...

South Africa has opened its first Quick Lane Tyre & Auto Centre in Silverton, Pretoria, thus joining over 1, 018 Quick Lane Tyre and Auto Centres worldwide, and more than 18  other countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Ethiopia and Uganda. Quick Lane ...

Kenyan oil marketing giant, Hass  Petroleum Group, has sold 40 percent of its stakes to Oman Trading International (OTI), a global trading company owned by the Government of Oman, according to a report by Fuel and Lube Asia. The move, according to F+L Asia , is to enable the Kenyan ...

…As Awango ‘Gift of Sunlight’ campaign enters second month Total Nigeria Plc, a leading international oil company and the biggest lubricants producer in Nigeria, is pressing ahead with its Awango ‘Gift of Sunlight, sales campaign in which it aims to sell no fewer than 20,000 Awango lamps within two months – ...

Indian Oil Corporation (IndianOil) has appointed Sanjiv Singh, who joined the company in 1981, spearheading refinery operations as well as mega greenfield and brownfield projects in refining and petrochemicals, as its new chairman. His appointment took effect on June 1, 2017, according to a report by Fuels and Lubes Asia. ...

In celebration of Earth Day 2017, Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell drivers have again surpassed an important threshold, accumulating more than two million miles on the roads and highways of both Southern and Northern California. These fuel cell CUVs have emitted only clean water vapor, and by so doing, have replaced ...