Forte Oil is an indigenous petroleum marketing company with structured operations and strategic policies to continuously improve product delivery. Forte Oil PLC operates over 500 retail outlets in the downstream sector of Nigeria’s Oil and Gas industry, offering a wide range of petroleum products and quality lubricants for various automobiles and machines. Its offerings equally satisfy respective needs of industrial, aviation and marine markets. Forte Upstream Services Limited operates in the upstream petroleum services sector and renders quality production and drilling chemical laboratory services to major oil exploration and production companies in Nigeria. Forte Upstream Services aims to become Africa’s leading indigenous upstream petroleum service company providing high quality services and supplying production chemicals & drilling fluids chemicals to operators in the upstream petroleum sector throughout Nigeria and Sao Tome and Principe. Forte Oil's downstream petroleum operations extend to Ghana, where its subsidiary, AP Oil and Gas Ghana Limited (APOG) maintains a significant network of retail outlets. This is in line with Forte Oil’s regional expansion plans into the West African markets such as Liberia, Togo and Sierra Leone leveraging Ghana as its hub. AP Oil and Gas Ghana Limited (APOG) commenced operations in July 2008.