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WARREN OIL, LAUNCHES LUBRIGUARD™ 15W40, A PREMIUM CJ-4/SM 15W4O ENGINE OIL WITH SOOTSLAYER™ TECHNOLOGY!

Dunn, North Carolina -- August 25, 2008 -- Warren Oil Company, Inc. North America’s Largest Independent Lubricant Manufacturer proudly launches LUBRIGUARD™ 15W40 CJ-4/SM Heavy Duty Diesel Engine Oil containing the revolutionary SOOTSLAYER™ TECHNOLOGY.

LUBRIGUARD™ 15W40 Heavy Duty Engine Oil with its industry leading “SOOTSLAYER™” Technology has twice the soot handling capability of typical API CI-4 engine oils and is engineered to maximize engine performance and engine life in today’s hotter-running engines with specialized emission control technologies and in yesterday’s more conventional engines. LUBRIGUARD™ 15W40 CJ-4/SM heavy duty engine oil exceeds all performance criteria of the new API CJ-4 service category as well as previous service categories.  

LUBRIGUARD™ 15W40 CJ-4/SM engine oil was designed to simplify a fleet owner’s logistics. With one of the industries highest starting TBN’s and strongest TBN retention rates, this one product is formulated to provide outstanding performance in extended drain applications and in mixed fleets at all diesel fuel sulfur levels from ultra low sulfur diesel fuels containing 15 ppm sulfur to off-highway diesel fuels containing up to 500 ppm sulfur.

LUBRIGUARD™ 15W40 CJ-4/SM with its SOOTSLAYER™ technology is formulated to be the only 15W40 engine oil an operator will need having received OEM approvals from Mack EO-O Premium Plus, Volvo VDS-4, DDC Power Guard Oil Specification 93K218, Cummins CES 20081 Renault RLD-3, ACEA E7-04 and is recommended for most other engine service requirements including Mercedes Benz 228.31, Man 3275, DHD-1, JASO DH-2 and many others.

LUBRIGUARD™ CJ-4/SM 15W40 with SOOTSLAYER™ technology will be offered through distributors selling any of Warren Oils premium quality brands to include the COASTAL ™  and Warren Oil™  brands  among others, as well as at a number of the US’s largest automotive supply retail chains.

Irvin Warren, Warren Oil’s Chief Executive Officer and President, said, “We at Warren Oil are pleased and excited to announce this wonderful new product.” “When we started the development of LUBRIGUARD™ CJ-4/SM 15W40, we established a performance target that used what we believed were the best performance characteristics of the acknowledged industry leaders, Shell Rotella® T Triple Protection, Chevron DELO® 400 LE and Mobil Delvac® 1300 Super engine oils.” “With the introduction of this new LUBRIGUARD™ CJ-4/SM 15W40, we feel that we have met and in some ways exceeded our performance targets.”

Warren Oil Company Inc.  the largest independent Lubricant manufacturer and marketer in North America currently owns and operates six efficient and modern lubricant manufacturing and packaging plants with a total throughput capability of over 200 million gallons annually

Warren Oil markets it lubricants both conventional and synthetic, domestically and internationally, under the WARREN OIL® brand, the LUBRIGARD® brand, the ITASCA® brand, the COASTAL® brand and the GOLD BAND brand. Warren Oil also manufactures and markets private label oils for a number of Fortune 500 companies in addition to manufacturing and marketing a full line of automotive and heavy duty chemicals, including anti-freeze and brake fluids, under its proprietary AUTOGUARD® brand name.  Website: http://www.warrenoil.com

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