Castrol oil production and quality

Section Castrol, article 1 of 5347 words, 2 minutes

In this section: 5 articles
  1. Castrol oil production and quality
  2. The history of Castrol
  3. How the Castrol brand came to be
  4. The World's First Additive Package, from Castrol
  5. Global cooperation with the automotive giants

Evolution of the Castrol oil logo The main plant where Castrol lubricants are made is located in Germany. What's more, given that Castrol is part of the British Petroleum (BP) group, it's reasonable to assume that Castrol oils may also be produced at other plants in the group, of which there are 7 in Europe alone. There is also production in America and China.

It has to be said that Castrol's marketing policy calls for engine oil labels to carry no information whatsoever about the actual manufacturing plant. Officially, including at technical seminars for its dealers and distributors, company representatives only share the following information about the production and quality of Castrol engine oils:

  1. Castrol has no production facilities in Eastern Europe (that said, rumours of a Polish origin for the Castrol oils supplied to CIS markets are not directly denied).

  2. Western Europe and the CIS are supplied with different Castrol oils. Despite sharing the same names, the oils carry a somewhat different additive package. According to brand representatives, this is about strengthening the oils' anti-oxidation properties for the CIS, owing to the substantially higher sulphur content in fuel there compared with Western Europe. That said, the overly large gap in official wholesale prices — say, between Germany and Russia — for the very same Castrol product (more expensive in Germany, of course) tends to confirm rather than dispel rumours about lower quality in the Castrol oils officially sold on our market.

  3. Castrol's professional product line is made exclusively at the company's German plant (probably the ARAL plant, since some oils in the professional line are, by name and set of approvals and specifications, absolutely identical to oils released under the BP group's other brand, ARAL). For the ordinary consumer this information is of little value, since these products aren't available in retail.

Whatever the case, no matter where Castrol engine oil is made, it's a sufficiently good-quality product — provided it's genuine. Given the brand's popularity, unfortunately, the odds of buying a fake are all too high.

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