Nigeria's Forte Oil said it plans to raise up to $502m to expand its operations in the country and will seek shareholders' approval at its annual General Meeting in April.
Europe’s trading giants Guvnor and Vitol shipped their first gasoline to Iran vying for Iranian market share to gain a foothold in the Iranian oil supply.
US based Gulf Oil LP it is entering Mexico's gasoline retail market, becoming the first foreign company to do after the energy reform that ended more than seven decades of government monopoly in the sector.
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) opened a commercial letter of credit of $400m for the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), to be paid within three months starting from January.
China Petrochemical Corp., Sinopec announced its plan to build a gasoline filling station and a storage depot at its outpost in the disputed Paracels Island in the South China Sea to ramp up its fuel supplies.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced earlier this week new quotas for renewable fuels blended into gasoline in 2016, higher than expected.