Oil Export Port Reopens After Strike Staged by Guards in Libya

• Wednesday, 11th February 2015
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

The port, located near the Libya-Egypt border, was closed Feb. 7, and the continued closure of the port would have cut Libya’s oil exports to an estimated 100,000 barrels per day or less. Before the fall of form...

US Oil Workers go on Strike

• Monday, 2nd February 2015
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

US union leaders have launched a large-scale strike at nine refineries after failing to agree on a new national contract with major oil companies. It marks the first nationwide walkout since 1980 and impacts plants th...

ExxonMobil work in Egypt suspended amid strike

• Thursday, 12th April 2012
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

In front of the factory of ExxonMobil, in the industrial city of the 10th of Ramadan, workers posted banners saying “No to contracts of forced labour or tyranny,” and “The free people of 10th of Rama...

Nigerian Union Threatens to Stop Oil Production Sunday

• Friday, 13th January 2012
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

A major Nigeria oil workers’ union Thursday threatened to halt production from Sunday if the government doesn’t reinstate fuel subsidies, heightening the potential for a disruption of oil shipments from Af...