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Striking Gabon workers shut down oilfields
Reuters / Apr 3, 2011

Striking workers in central African oil exporter Gabon began shutting down the nation’s oilfields on Friday to press for more local hiring in the sector, sparing panic fuel buying and a government plea to restart labour talks.

Some 50% of the country’s 220 000 - 240 000 barrels of daily crude oil output will be shut by the end of the day, with the rest scheduled to be halted within 48 hours, Guy-Roger Aurat Reteno, secretary general of the Onep union said.

“Since midnight we started to shut down Gabon’s oilfields. The shutdown procedures are ongoing,” he said, adding distribution of refined fuel in the country was also paralysed. ...

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Maybe we should launch a humanitarian war.

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Gabon Oil Workers’ Strike Cost $131 Million Loss, Union Says
By Antoine Lawson / Bloomberg / Apr 6, 2011

A four-day strike by oil workers in Gabon cost the government and two main oil companies 60 billion CFA francs ($131 million) in lost revenue, according to the labor union that organized the walkout.