Arabian Petroleum was originally incorporated as ‘Arabian Petroleum Private Limited’ under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 vide Certificate of Incorporation dated March 20, 2009. Subsequently the company was converted into a public limited company vide special resolution passed by the shareholders at the Extra Ordinary General Meeting held on November 11, 2011 and the name of the company was changed from ‘Arabian Petroleum Private Limited’ to ‘Arabian Petroleum Limited’ vide fresh Certificate of Incorporation granted to the company consequent upon conversion into public limited company dated December 16, 2011 by the Registrar of Companies, Maharashtra, Mumbai.
The company in the business of manufacturing wide range of Lubricants including Specialty Oils, Coolants etc used for Industrial and Automotive applications. Its business is categorized into two distinctive product division: (i) Automotive Lubricants - Arzol and (ii) Industrial Lubricants - SPL. It is dedicated to consistently providing products that deliver stellar quality and comply with statutory requirements in the Automotive and Industrial Lubricants domain. The company took over the manufacturing and trading business of Industrial & Automotive Lubricants from the proprietorship firm ‘Arabian Petroleum’ run by its proprietor Hemant D Mehta HUF vide Business Takeover agreement dated December 25, 2015, in the manner that all the Know- how, goodwill, clients of the proprietorship firm were transferred to the company and the company set up its own manufacturing facility at a plant in Ambernath situated at Thane, Maharashtra, India.
Its domestic and international customers are spread across multiple industries, including pharmaceutical, FMCG, chemicals, steel, rubber and tyre, power, civil engineering, electrical appliances, textile, telecommunication, chemical, cables and conductors and automobile industry etc. Apart from private players, it also derives its revenues under the contracts from the Government sectors (both central and state) and associated entities. It is honored to be one of the suppliers of lubricants to the Indian Armed Forces and have successfully delivered lubricant products to Border Security Force (BSF), Indian Air Force (IAF) and Indian Navy across various parts of the country. It has product approval certification from Volvo Group Trucks Technology, Renault Group and MACK Trucks for its product ‘Milage Synactivs 15W-40’ engine oil. It has recently received OEM approval from Bharat Earth Movers Limited (Formerly - BEML) for their entire range of products like Engine oil, hydraulic oil etc.
Business area of the company
The company is engaged in the business of manufacturing a wide range of Lubricants including speciality Oils, Coolants, etc used for application in automobiles and industrial machines and appliances.
Products of the company
Industrial lubricants
- Mineral & synthetic gear oils
- Hydraulic oils Compressor oils
- Water soluble metal working fluids
- Neat cutting fluids
- Rust preventives fluids
- Quenchants
- Thermic fluids
- Vacuum oils
- Turbine oils
- Slideway oils
- Refrigeration oils
- Textile oils
- Multi-purpose lithium greases
- Complex greases
- Extreme pressure lithium greases
- Calcium based greases
- High temperature greases
Automotive lubricants
- Gallop 4t
- Pace 4t
- Eco 4t
- Milage Synactiv
- Milage
- Rage turbo
- Loadmax
- Rage
- Superstar
- Go Gear EP Series
- Durazol
- Automotive transmission fluid
- Universal tractor transmission Oi
- Accel
- Eco CNG
- Synpro
- Cabz
History and milestones
- 2009: Incorporation of the company in the name of ‘Arabian Petroleum Private Limited’.
- 2011: Conversion of the Company from Private Limited to Public Limited Company.
- 2015: Takeover of the business of proprietorship firm Arabian Petroleum vide Business Takeover Agreement dated December 25, 2015.
- 2015: Started its own manufacturing activities at Ambernath with 10 Blenders/Reactors
- 2018: Opened its first depot in Nagpur.
- 2019: Expanded to new geographies with opening of first depot in Northern region at Gurugram and another Depot at Indore.
- 2019: Set up of new Factory Unit 2 pursuant to acquisition of adjoining factory land at Ambernath with 2 more Blenders/Reactors.
- 2021: Opened more Depots at Ludhiana, Rajkot and Aurangabad.
- 2021: Received Certificate of Recognition as One Star Export House.2021: Received First OEM approval from Volvo Group Trucks Technology.
- 2021: Received Approval from American Petroleum Institute (API) for Automotive Products.
- 2023: Received OEM approval from Bharat Earth Movers Limited (Formerly - BEML Limited) for their entire range of products like Engine oil, hydraulic oil etc.