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MAL Pakistan Limited, the marketing alliance of ExxonMobil Lubricants & Specialties, has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Hascol Petroleum Limited to sell Mobil lubricants through Hascol’s

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened an engineering analysis into whether General Motors Co.’s (GM) recall remedy for its 6.2-litre L87 V-8 engine worked, covering 997,743 vehicles from the 2021 through 2026 model years. The investigation,

Sinopec’s lubricant arm has completed final verification of a cold plate liquid cooling fluid for data centres and brought it to market as Great Wall Chipray CY-E25, after an ultra-long-cycle corrosion test lasting 1,000 hours. Researchers at the Beijing Research

The Chemours Company has launched two refrigerants for stationary chiller applications, Opteon ZE (R-1234ze(E)) and Opteon 515B (R-515B), aimed at large-scale cooling in data centres, commercial buildings and other mission-critical environments. The Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.-based chemistry company announced the

Sefas Group has agreed to acquire 100% of Shell’s fuel station business in Indonesia, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary conditions, the Indonesian lubricants distributor said on 19 August. The company said it would proceed with the process of

The Australian government has opened consultation on the next phase of its fuel security agenda, part of an AUD 14.8 billion (USD 10.5 billion) Fuel Security and Resilience Package announced in the 2026-27 Budget. In a joint media release on

Valvoline Global Operations has stepped up its involvement with Mahindra Racing to Official Partner, using the season finale of the Formula E World Championship in London, England, to tie 160 years of lubricant development to its work on electric mobility.

Shell Lubricants and Hyundai Motor Company have announced a five-year renewal of their global partnership, extending a relationship that began in 2005. The agreement, announced in Seoul, South Korea, on 19 August 2026, is the fifth renewal since the two

Castrol has said two of its direct-to-chip (D2C) cooling fluids have been validated to meet NVIDIA’s requirements for artificial intelligence (AI) factory and data centre infrastructure. The lubricant maker, currently part of the bp group, said Castrol ON PG25 and

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a draft risk evaluation of ethylene dibromide, the chemical used chiefly as a lead scavenger in leaded aviation gasoline, under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The draft, announced on 18 August