International Lubricant Distributors New Kenwick Headquarters
16 May 2022 International Lubricant Distributors P.L. (ILD) are excited to announce it has relocated to the new Roe Highway Logistics Park (ROE) - 21 Logistics Drive, Kenwick Western Australia. Residing within WA’s leading sustainable industrial estate park, the new top-tier ILD premises improve our ability to service customers…
The Wind Energy Institute of Canada (WEICan), a non-profit research institute located in North Cape, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and ExxonMobil have agreed to test new and innovative lubricant technologies for wind turbine applications and technology designed to monitor lubricant performance. WEICan and ExxonMobil’s collaboration will focus on improving performance and cost efficiency of turbines…
Chevron Corporation, the second-largest integrated energy company headquartered in the United States, announced plans to invest more capital to grow lower carbon energy businesses. “Chevron intends to be a leader in advancing a lower carbon future,” said Michael Wirth, Chevron’s chairman and CEO. “Our planned actions target sectors of the economy that are harder to…
FUCHS Lubricants South Africa, located in Gauteng, South Africa, and a subsidiary of Germany’s FUCHS Petrolub SE, will produce the CASSIDA range of food grade lubricants locally, a first for Africa. Covering oils and greases, CASSIDA spans lubricants ranging from refrigeration to machinery used in the manufacture of butter tubs and cans, amongst numerous other…
British energy major bp has appointed Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath as its new executive vice president (EVP), gas and low carbon energy, and member of bp’s leadership team. Dotzenrath succeeds Dev Sanyal, who will leave bp at the end of 2021 to lead VARO Energy’s energy transition. Until recently Dotzenrath was chief executive officer of RWE Renewables,…
Rolls-Royce and Flanders Electric have agreed to develop a retrofit solution for hybridizing mining trucks with mtu engines, batteries and hybrid control systems, and Flanders drive train solutions. The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) enabling them to offer a scalable retrofit kit for hybridizing mining trucks in a wide range of…
ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd announced the launch of its MobilSM Fleet Care (MFC) program for its lubricant customers yesterday. MobilSM Fleet Care is a fleet management solution that provides fleet owners and operators with a holistic view of their fleet’s operational performance. The insights MobilSM Fleet Care provides will help ensure fleet safety and…
Saudi Aramco has signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with P1 Racing Fuels and WRC Promoter GmbH, the commercial rights owner of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), to collaborate on the formulation of advanced-generation biofuels and sustainable synthetic fuels derived from captured carbon dioxide (CO2) and low-carbon hydrogen. The sustainable fuels will be used in…
Shell Ventures BV and BlueAlp Holding BV announced a strategic partnership to develop, scale and deploy BlueAlp’s plastic waste-to-chemical feedstock technology. The technology transforms plastic waste which is tough to recycle into a recycled feedstock, i.e. pyrolysis oil, that can be used to make sustainable chemicals. Shell has taken a 21.25% equity stake in BlueAlp…
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of U.S.-based global energy major Chevron Corporation, and Gevo, Inc. have signed a letter of intent to jointly invest in building and operating one or more new facilities that would process inedible corn to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The new facilities would also produce proteins and corn oil. Through the proposed collaboration, Gevo…