Mack Issues New EO-O and EO-N Approved Oils Service Bulletin
Mack has introduced a new Service Bulletin 'Approved Oils, Mack Components'. This bulletin lists the companies offering oils required for Mack components as well as comments; that synthetic oils do not allow further extension of oil drain intervals, about these approved oils meeting Volvo VDS-4 standard, about use of aftermarket additives, etc. This is not a totally new list of approved oils; rather it is a new format showing revised lists of EO-N and EO-O approved oils.
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Shell Sells Its Dominican Republic Lube Business
Shell West Indies Ltd has agreed to sell its lubricants distribution and marketing business in the Dominican Republic to Barbados-based Sol Group. The agreement will allow the Sol Group to continue using the Shell brand under a licensing agreement. The sale does not include Lubricantes Dominicanos, S.A. (Lubridom), the lube blending subsidiary located in the Haina Industrial Zone near Santo Domingo.
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ILMA Voices Dexos Concerns to GM
ILMA last week shared with General Motors (GM) its serious concerns with the dexos™ engine oil specification and how the dexos licensing program is expected to be operated. GM’s Eric Johnson and representatives from the Center for Quality Assurance (CQA) had briefed ILMA’s Board of Directors on the dexos program at last month’s Annual Meeting.
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Mobil 1 Selected as Factory-Fill Motor Oil for Cadillac Escalade Hybrid SUV
ExxonMobil last week announced that Mobil 1 full synthetic motor oil been selected as the factory- and service-fill endorsed motor oil for the 2009 Cadillac Escalade Hybrid, the first-ever, full-size luxury sports utility vehicle to feature hybrid powertrain technology. In addition, Mobil 1 has also been selected as the factory- and service-fill endorsed motor oil for the redesigned Cadillac CTS-V, which was launched in November 2008.
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Shell Canada Closing Pennzoil Quaker State Laval Distribution Centre
Shell Canada Ltd. has announced that the Pennzoil Quaker State provincial distribution centre in Laval, Quebec will close in February next year. Nicole Belval, Quebec spokesperson for Shell, said that the decision was made to be more competitive. Belval said Quebec customers will be able to obtain supplies from a distribution centre in Burlington, Ontario or a Brockville, Ontario lubricants plant. Shell has also closed distribution centres in Calgary and British Columbia.
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Eastern Hemisphere Lube Base Oil Price Report
Crude oil prices have stabilized around the US$80 per barrel level, trading last week in a range of US$76-81 per barrel, with light sweet crude oil closing at US$76.72 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange last Friday. Eastern hemisphere base oil prices showed essentially no price change, except for base oils ex-Russia which decreased by US$15 to US$25 per MT.
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