The Mexican government has issued new regulations limiting private firms to import fuel.

Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer, has given the green light to construct a series of mini-plants with the government licensing a total of 40 mini-refineries in an effort to help end its dependency on fuel imports.

The petroleum sector’s fuel exports’ total value exceeded $600 million.

The petroleum sector increased the diesel supply across Egypt’s governorates to reach 1.2 million tons per month following the new fuel prices.

HSBC Egypt agreed to be the financial consultant to secure a $500 million loan to finance the imports of the market's demands of diesel, benzene and mazut, in addition to paying a part of arrears to IOCs.

The Egyptian oil and gas sector imported fuel for $819 million in June 2017, making around 30.6% Year-over-Year (Y-o-Y) increase from $627 million worth fuel in June 2016.

Egypt's fuel imports for the first five months of 2017 fell to $497 million from $645 million during the same period last year, a year-on-year decrease of 23%.

Rwanda and Burundi stopped importing their fuel needs through the Kenyan port of Mombasa because of the contamination of some cargoes and have opted to route shipments through Tanzania.

Nigeria plans to reduce its level of fuel imports by 60% by the year 2018.

Egypt is in talks with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to secure funds for the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) to import petroleum derivatives,