Capability

Lubricants and base oils in Singapore

Base-oil production and finished-lubricant blending for automotive, industrial and marine markets. Buyers read a player on base-oil group (I/II/III), blending capacity, product range, API licensing and OEM approvals, and jetty and terminal logistics.

Singapore is a top-tier global lubricants blending hub, and the pillar sits on two anchors: world-scale base-oil production integrated into the refineries, and a cluster of finished-lubricant blending plants for automotive, industrial and marine markets. The physical heart is the Tuas "Lube Park" — billed as the world's first shared lube park — where Shell, TotalEnergies and Sinopec co-locate around a common tank farm (159,000 m³, expandable to 208,000 m³) and jetty berths. Upstream, ExxonMobil's Jurong Island plant is the world's largest lubricant base-oil plant at 51,900 barrels a day (about 21% larger than the next biggest) after a Group II expansion. The buyer reads a lubricants player on base-oil group (Group I/II/III), blending capacity (tonnes a year), product range (automotive, industrial, marine, greases, metalworking), API licensing and OEM approvals, and jetty/terminal logistics.

The field pairs MNC majors with world-scale Singapore plants and a genuine homegrown blending tier. On the MNC side: Shell's Tuas plant runs at up to 430 million litres a year (~390 kt) — its third-largest lubricants plant globally, over half marine — TotalEnergies operates its single largest lubricant plant worldwide at 310 kt/yr, Sinopec runs ~100 kt/yr at the Lube Park, and ENEOS ItalSing blends at Jurong Pier. The homegrown champions are AP Oil International (SGX-listed, the first Singaporean-owned lube plant, three blending plants and specialty-chemical lines) and United Oil Company (Tuas, 170 kt/yr blending, Repsol a 40% shareholder). The structural pull is toward higher-grade Group II/III base oils and specialty/EV fluids. Lead with the homegrown blenders, then the MNC plants.

Also known as: lubricants · base oils · lube blending · greases · marine lubricants · Tuas Lube Park

Capability specifications

Base-oil groups: Group I / II / III
Capacity measure: Tonnes or litres a year (blending)
Products: Automotive, industrial, marine lubricants, greases, metalworking fluids
Cluster: Tuas Lube Park (shared tank farm and jetties)
Approvals: API licensing, OEM approvals, ISO 9001/14001

Companies with this capability in Singapore

AP Oil International
A homegrown, SGX-listed blender — the first Singaporean-owned lubricant plant — running three blending plants (two in Singapore, one in Vietnam) plus two specialty-chemical plants, making automotive, industrial and marine lubricants and greases under the AP Oil and SINO brands and supplying base oils and specialty lubricants to around 20 countries.
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United Oil Company
A homegrown Tuas Drive 2 blender rated at 170 kt a year with around 30 kt of base-oil storage, making passenger-car, diesel, industrial, marine and metalworking fluids and greases; ISO 9001/14001 and API-licensed. Repsol holds a 40% stake.
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ExxonMobil (Singapore)
Runs Singapore's largest refining-and-chemicals complex on Jurong Island (Pioneer Road and Pulau Ayer Chawan) at 592,000 barrels a day, integrated with a 1.9-million-tonne-a-year ethylene steam cracker, the world's largest lubricant base-oil plant (about 51,900 barrels a day of Group II) and around 440 MW of cogeneration, plus a large fuels-and-feedstocks supply-and-trading function and a resid-upgrade facility making specialty base stocks.
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Shell (Singapore)
Runs its Tuas Lube Park plant at up to 430 million litres a year (around 390 kt) — Shell’s third-largest lubricants plant worldwide, over half marine lubricants and grease — a principal global trading hub from Singapore across crude, products, LNG and gas, and, after its acquisition of Pavilion Energy, a leading Singapore LNG trading, supply and marine-bunkering portfolio.
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TotalEnergies (Singapore)
Its Tuas Lube Park plant is TotalEnergies’ single largest lubricant blending plant worldwide at 310 kt a year (automotive, industrial and marine), with on-site solar; it also runs its Asian oil, products and LNG trading from Singapore.
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Sinopec Lubricant (Singapore)
A Tuas Lube Park plant rated at about 100 kt a year of finished lubricants — Sinopec’s regional overseas lubricants production base.
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ENEOS ItalSing
A Jurong Pier Road blending plant making automotive, industrial and marine lubricants and transmission fluids, with tankage linked to Jurong Port.
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Aster Chemicals and Energy
The former Shell Pulau Bukom refinery and Jurong Island Energy & Chemicals Park — a 300,000-barrel-a-day refinery with a 1.1-million-tonne ethylene cracker — now owned and operated by CAPGC, a Chandra Asri and Glencore joint venture, after Shell’s exit. Produces transport fuels, base oils, bitumen and base chemicals; Aster Polymer Solutions makes polyethylene resins.
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