Petrobras: Robust Recovery for Brazil

By Nancy DeMarco (Article from here) 
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Brazil is a huge country with a healthy appetite for lubricants, consuming more than 1.3 million cubic meters (about 1.18 million metric tons) in 2008. While the market may shrink about 3 percent in 2009, expect demand to grow 2 to 3 percent annually from 2011 to 2020, a Petrobras official told the ICIS conference here.

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Dah Chong Hong and UMW Malaysia build a lubricants joint venture into the construction phase of the project

Source: Business Network Posted by: Roadside Agency

January 5, 2010

In 2008, according to foreign media reports, DCH also announced that a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dah Chong Hong Automotive Service Center, with UMW Holdings Berhad's wholly-owned subsidiary of UMW Corporation Sdn Bhd ([UMW]) signed a letter of intent joint venture in China to produce High-precision lubricating oil.

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Goldman Makes ‘Call of Decade’ by Promoting BRICs

By David Wilson

Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s forecast that Brazil, Russia, India and China would eventually eclipse the Group of Seven countries economically has been described as “the biggest market call of the decade.

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Advanced battery research driving to displace gasoline

(Nanowerk News) In excess of seven million barrels of gasoline are consumed by vehicles in the United States every day. As scientists race to find environmentally sound solutions to fuel the world’s ever-growing transportation needs, battery researchers are exploring the promise of lithium-air battery technology.

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Used oil: An often overlooked resource

JANUARY 2010 by Mike Breslin

Long before it became widespread practice to recycle paper, plastics and other waste stream commodities, used oil was recycled to recover its innate heating value. Even though it’s dirty and exhausted of lubricity, a gallon of used oil contains 140,000 BTUs of energy, approximately the same heating value of a new gallon of oil.

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