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The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) workers, an arm of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has embarked on an indefinite strike, The Nation reports.
As a result, the country will lose production of some 115,000 barrels of oil per day valued at $6.9m.
The workers are striking to halt further transfer of operatorship of about five more divested blocks by the Federal Government. It was also learnt that the workers are actually asking for salary increase in disguise.
The workers under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) NPDC chapter simply referred to as NUPENGASSAN, had a meeting yesterday and decided to start the indefinite strike immediately after the meeting.
The strike is coming barely a month the same workers called off their over week strike because the operatorship of one of the Shell divested assets located in oil mining lease (OML) 42, was transferred to the private sector joint venture partner of NPDC – Neconde Energy Limited.
As a result, the country will lose production of some 115,000 barrels of oil per day valued at $6.9m.
The workers are striking to halt further transfer of operatorship of about five more divested blocks by the Federal Government. It was also learnt that the workers are actually asking for salary increase in disguise.
The workers under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) NPDC chapter simply referred to as NUPENGASSAN, had a meeting yesterday and decided to start the indefinite strike immediately after the meeting.
The strike is coming barely a month the same workers called off their over week strike because the operatorship of one of the Shell divested assets located in oil mining lease (OML) 42, was transferred to the private sector joint venture partner of NPDC – Neconde Energy Limited.
