Nigerian unions ended a day-old strike against the split of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) after a minister promised there would be no job cuts.
Nigerian trade unions shutted down the offices of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in protest at plans to reorganize the company. The strike raises the spectre of further oil shortages in the country.
10 thousand workers at Petrotrade are on their 6th consecutive day of a wage increase strike. The strike is witnessed at the Giza, Cairo, Assuit, El Haram, Nasr City, and Masr El Gdida branches, Egypt Oil & Gas reports.
Brazil's oil-workers' union began a strike on November 1, protesting asset sales and cuts in investment on the part of Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the nation's state-owned oil company, which is seeking to reduce its enor ...
The legal team representing the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) has notified City Power that its planned strike action will not commence on Monday October 19 as originally announced
Nigerian oil workers will go on strike to halt a small field if the government does not meet with them by the end of the week, a spokesman for Nigeria's main oil workers' union told Reuters on Tuesday.
North Sea oil production could face severe disruption from a threatened strike by unions that would add to the strain already placed on drillers by falling oil prices.
Government-owned natural gas projects company Egypt Gas has registered EGP 17.3m losses in the first quarter (Q1) of 2015, compared to EGP 73.1m recorded profits in Q4 2014, the company announced on Sunday.
Striking United Steelworkers at Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s Kentucky oil refinery will return to work next week for the first time in more than two months, leaving workers at four other U.S. sites still on strike.