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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 7:14 am Post subject: Nigerian Oil Workers Strike/MEND Threatens New Attack
As Nigerian oil wrkers strike today in regards to a protest against refinery privatisation, MEND stated it would also protest - by threatening to blow up pipelines.
Meanwhile a Total facility came under attack.
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Gunmen attack Total oil facility in Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria
21 May 2007 11:12
Unidentified gunmen attacked an oil facility in Nigeria operated by France's Total on Monday using high explosives, sources at private security companies said.
It was unclear whether there were any casualties or damage to the facility in the attack. A Total spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.
"There was an attack on an onshore flow-station. They used high explosives," one of the sources said, asking not to be named.
Attacks on oil facilities and kidnapping of foreign workers have become frequent in the world's eighth largest oil exporter, and have halted almost a third of its oil output. - Reuters
This Day (Lagos)
Nigeria: Refineries Privatisation - Oil Workers Begin Strike Today
21 May 2007
Posted to the web 21 May 2007
Chika Amanze-Nwachuku And Fidelia Okwuonu
Lagos
There were strong indications yesterday that oil workers under the umbrellas of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) will today begin a strike action to protest what they perceive as indiscriminate sale of the nation's refineries by the Federal Government . Also, workers at the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) will cut gas supply to strategic investments, such as gas power plants.
In a telephone interview with THISDAY last night, the NUPENG national president, Mr. Peter Akpatason stated that the strike action has indeed commenced and will continue tomorrow as workers are not happy with the manner the government sold off the refineries. The strike has began and it will continue tomorrow, what the government did was wrong. We are protesting the indiscriminate sale of the refineries,he stated.
In Nigeria, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, the main militant group in the oil-producing Niger River delta, said it had no plans to attack a refinery in Port Harcourt to protest the government's sale of its stake in the plant last week. The group may attack a pipeline supplying the refinery, Jomo Gbomo, a MEND spokesman, said today.
Unrest has halted about 900,000 barrels a day of crude output have been halted in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, Vienna- based PVM Oil Associates GmbH estimates.
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:04 am Post subject: Re: Nigerian Oil Workers Strike/MEND Threatens New Attack
Im going to cheer on for those poor nigerians. I would like to say oil execs are going to get what they deserve but I guess their going to live their lives out in their mansions thinking they did everything right.
Realistically nigeria needs to cut their population down to like 1/10 of what it is if they hope to signifigantly improve the quality of life, down to say 20 million, not 140 million like it is now. Like thats going to happen.
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: Nigerian Oil Workers Strike/MEND Threatens New Attack
FireJack wrote:
Im going to cheer on for those poor nigerians. I would like to say oil execs are going to get what they deserve but I guess their going to live their lives out in their mansions thinking they did everything right.
Realistically nigeria needs to cut their population down to like 1/10 of what it is if they hope to signifigantly improve the quality of life, down to say 20 million, not 140 million like it is now. Like thats going to happen.
im with you on the cheering for the nigerians for their rightful fighting bit, but as always am a little perplexed as to how any "population cut measures" are to be implemented into reality.
Joined: Oct 23, 2004 Posts: 5925 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject: Re: Nigerian Oil Workers Strike/MEND Threatens New Attack
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Nigeria State Oil Workers Plan Strike From Midnight, Union Says
By Julie Ziegler
May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Workers at Nigerian National Petroleum Co. will stage a strike at midnight unless an agreement is reached to save jobs following last week's sale of the Port Harcourt refinery.
About 6,000 members belonging to the Petroleum & Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, or Pengassan, and the National Union of Petroleum & Natural Gas Workers, or Nupeng, plan to halt work at refineries, depots and other facilities operated by NNPC, said Lumumba Okugbawa, deputy general secretary of Pengassan.
``By midnight today if nothing improves, there will be a shutdown,'' Okugbawa said in an interview. Union members say the sale of the refinery failed to follow due process and may lead to job cuts.
Okugbawa said the strike may have an indirect impact on Nigeria's oil production, since the walkout may impede NNPC's regulatory role over the industry. Union workers at the Nigerian ventures of oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Chevron Corp. won't be affected by the strike, he said.
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Joined: Oct 23, 2004 Posts: 5925 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 5:50 am Post subject: Re: Nigerian Oil Workers Strike/MEND Threatens New Attack
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Striking Nigerian oil unions threaten production
Thu 24 May 2007, 9:59 GMT
LAGOS (Reuters) - Staff of Nigeria's state oil company began an indefinite strike on Thursday over welfare and union leaders said they would target oil production if their demands are not addressed within days.
The strike, which is also to protest against the privatisation of the country's largest oil refinery last week, is expected to first hit domestic fuel supplies.
It comes just five days before the inauguration of President-elect Umura Yar'Adua on Tuesday. A separate two-day strike is planned by all unions on Monday and Tuesday, but they had previously said it would not affect oil output.
"The strike has started. We will wait for two or three days and see what happens. If we don't get the desired results, we will then extend it to the upstream sector where the impact will be immediate," said Peter Akpatason, president of the junior staff union NUPENG.
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Joined: Oct 23, 2004 Posts: 5925 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 10:22 am Post subject: Re: Nigerian Oil Workers Strike/MEND Threatens New Attack
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Shell: Force Majeure On May, Early June Forcados Oil Exports
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
May 25, 2007 11:40 a.m.
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Royal Dutch Shell PLC's (RDSB.LN) Nigerian joint venture has declared force majeure on oil exports from the Forcados terminal in Nigeria for the next two months.
"Following security threats around Forcados area, we declare force majeure on May and early June liftings from the facility," said Shell spokeswoman Alexandra Wright.
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 10:30 am Post subject: Re: Nigerian Oil Workers Strike/MEND Threatens New Attack
"Force Majeure literally means "greater force". These clauses excuse a party from liability if some unforseen event beyond the control of that party prevents it from performing its obligations under the contract. Typically, force majeure clauses cover natural disasters or other "Acts of God", war, or the failure of third parties--such as suppliers and subcontractors--to perform their obligations to the contracting party. It is important to remember that force majeure clauses are intended to excuse a party only if the failure to perform could not be avoided by the exercise of due care by that party. "
Joined: Oct 23, 2004 Posts: 5925 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:51 am Post subject: Re: Nigerian Oil Workers Strike/MEND Threatens New Attack
Nigerian oil workers get 15% pay raise, but may participate in upcoming protest strike:
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Nigerian oil unions end strike after government concessions
2007-05-26 15:55:44 -
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) _ Nigeria's powerful oil workers' unions ended a two-day strike Saturday after the government agreed to pay increases for employees of the state oil company, officials said.
The government agreed to a 15 percent raise for all employees of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company and union officials ordered workers back to work on Saturday, said Peter Esele, leader of the white collar workers' bloc.
The strike did not affect crude output from Africa's biggest producer, but workers began leaving their jobs at export terminals on Friday, threatening to slow the flow of crude from Nigeria at a time when oil prices are near all-time highs. The work action began Thursday, after the government hastily sold off a refinery.
Esele said the tens of thousands of Nigerian workers in the oil industry would still participate in a separate two-day work stoppage beginning Monday to protest the country's deeply flawed April elections.
AP/PR-Inside _________________ It's already over, now it's just a matter of adjusting.
Joined: Oct 23, 2004 Posts: 5925 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: Nigerian Oil Workers Strike/MEND Threatens New Attack
Nigeria oil hub shut down for third day:
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Nigeria Pipeline Attack Cuts Shell Oil OutputShell said it had already begun to restore some of the lost production, but would not specify how much.
Protesters sabotaged an export pipeline hub in Nigeria for the second time this month and halted 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil production, Royal Dutch Shell said on Wednesday. Youths demanding contracts from Shell stormed the Bomu pipeline complex, which is a major artery feeding the Bonny crude export terminal, prompting the partial shutdown of the Trans-Niger pipeline on Tuesday, a company spokesman said.
"Youths from the K-Dere community started to spoil the environment by opening some pressure indicator valves. Consequently, we had to shut in some of the oil production," he said.
Port Harcourt - A protest by villagers at a major oil export pipeline complex in Nigeria entered a third day on Thursday and no crude was flowing through the facility, a protest leader said.
Villagers from K-Dere occupied the pipeline hub at Bomu, which feeds the Bonny shipping terminal, on Tuesday and forced Shell to shut 150 000 barrels per day of output.
"The lines are still shut. They are not flowing. We locked up the place and slept here last night," said Teddy Penedibebari, who is leading the protest.
Shell, the biggest foreign oil operator in Nigeria, had said it was "ramping up production" on Wednesday, but confirmed that output was still down by 150 000 bpd on Thursday.
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