Recently, the gasoline engine oil developed by the SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Processing (RIPP) has passed seven engine tests required by the latest-generation gasoline engine oil standard GF-6/SP. Meanwhile, RIPP has brought forward the technology for manufacture of new generation gasoline engine oil based on its own formulation meeting the engine oil standard GF-6/SP simultaneously with the international additives companies, which has eliminated the new generation gap in gasoline engine oil between China and the overseas players.

ILSAC and API plan to adopt the latest generation gasoline engine oil standard GF-6/SP in 2020. The standard GF-6/SP for the first time employs six newly designed engine stand tests which have remarkably tightened the requirements for energy saving, cleanliness and anti-wear performance along with newly added tests for checking the chain wear and the low-speed pre-ignition and detonation in engine, making the development of engine oil formulations extremely difficult.With the increasingly tightening regulations on energy saving and environmental protection, the turbocharged gasoline direct injection engines are continuously getting smaller, which has been pushing ahead with the efforts of global automotive manufacturers to gradually upgrade the gasoline passenger car engine oil in compliance with the level of GF-6. The formulation of gasoline engine oil GF-6/SP developed independently by RIPP can meet the driving performance of automobiles designed to comply with China’s National VI standard, and the low-viscosity 0W-20 grade and 0W-16 grade gasoline engine oils developed by RIPP are characteristic of outstanding fuel economy.

The technical success in the development of these engine oil products has symbolized that RIPP has mastered the technology for formulating the latest-generation gasoline engine oils, indicating that RIPP has realized the breakthrough of engine oil formulation technology to shift its position from that of a previous follower to one that runs neck-and-neck with other foreign players, which has significantly boosted the international competitive edge of its independent engine oil formulation.