Bloomberg OPEC and its allies could boost oil production by more than the 1 million barrels a day agreed last month if needed, Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak said. “I can’t rule out that if there is a need for more than 1 million barrels we will be able to quickly discuss it all together and make all necessary decisions,” …

Bloomberg Uganda, which plans to produce and refine its own oil, said it will require as much as $70 million to construct a storage facility for refined products on the outskirts of the capital, Kampala. The East African country will initially build storage with capacity for 60,000 cubic meters that it may upgrade to 138,000 cubic meters if there’s demand, …

Bloomberg Iraq is pumping oil at normal levels even as protests spread across the southern region from where OPEC’s second-biggest producer exports most of its crude, according to a government spokesman. “Production and exports from southern Iraq are stable as per normal levels,” Oil Ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said by phone. Authorities have deployed security forces to protect energy fields …