Nigerian fuel price strike enters second day, oil exports normal

Paris (Platts)--12Oct2004

Nigeria has entered its second day of a four-day general strike, bolstering
world oil prices to record highs but leaving crude exports from Africa's
largest oil producer unaffected. "There's has been no serious disruption to
production or exports because we have not asked our people to leave the
platforms," the president of the blue-collar oil workers' union Nupeng Peter
Akapatson said Tuesday. 

Shell, accounting for half the country's production of
2.4-mil b/d, said operations had not been affected. "Workers are in the fields
so production has not been affected. The offices are not full but we are
working," a Shell spokesman said. The strike, over a 20% hike in retail fuel
prices, brought most Nigerian cities to a standstill Monday after tens of
millions of workers stayed at home or held low-key protest rallies. "We are
happy with the progress so far," said assistant general secretary of the
Nigeria Labour Congress Salihu Lukman .

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