据普氏能源资讯5月19日拉各斯报道,国有尼日利亚石油开发公司(NPDC)的尼日利亚工人工会19日在拉各斯宣布,他们已经开始劳工行动来抗议尼日利亚政府把多产的陆上石油区块OML42的作业权转移给本地的一家公司。
工会和公司消息人士说,NPDC石油工人旨在抗议把OML42区块转移给Neconde能源公司的罢工使得NPDC的石油日产量关闭了10万桶。
工会在一份联合声明中表示:“我们是在旨在阻止转移作业权的所有尝试失败以后才决定举行此次罢工的。”
消息人士后来告诉普氏能源资讯,除了OML38区块以外,参加劳工行动的石油工人已全部撤离NPDC担任作业者的油田。
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原文如下:
Nigeria's NPDC workers strike, 100,000 b/d oil output shut in: unions
Lagos (Platts)--19May2015
Nigerian oil workers' unions at state-owned Nigerian Petroleum Development Co Tuesday said they have begun industrial action to protest the transfer of the operatorship by the government of prolific onshore oil block OML 42, sold by Shell, to an indigenous company.
The strike by the NPDC branches to protest the transfer of OML 42 to Neconde Energy, shut down about 100,000 b/d of NPDC's oil production, union and company sources said.
"We have decided to embark on the industrial action after all attempts proved abortive," the unions said in a joint statement.
Sources later told Platts that protesting workers had pulled out of oil fields operated by NPDC except OML 38.