Bahrain Lube Base Oil Company B.S.C. (Closed) (BLBOC) is a first company of its kind in the region when it was formed in 2009 to build a lube base oil plant manufacturing Group III base oils from the hydrocracker bottoms stream at the Bapco refinery using Chevron Lummus Global ISO Dewaxing Technology along with associated export facilities.

Today, nogaholding owns 72.5 percent of the issued share capital in BLBOC, with the remaining 27.5 percent owned by Bapco.

The production capacity of the Lube Base Oil Plant is 400,000 tonnes a year of Very High Viscosity Index (VHVI), Group III Base Oils. These products are in increasingly high demand in Europe and North America, and serve to meet the requirements of the next generation of lubricant performance and environmental standards. Commercial sales by Bapco of its own branded BAPbase® base oils started in January 2018.