Total strike will halt all Nigerian oil exports, threaten unions

Lagos (Platts)--1Sep2006

Nigerian oil unions said Friday oil liftings from the West African
country will be affected during the three-day strike planned for September 13.
"The warning strike will affect downstream and upstream activities,
onshore and offshore. There will be no oil exports during the period as we
intend to make it total," Peter Esele, president of the white collar union
Pengassan told Platts.
The union, along with its junior counterpart Nupeng, resolved at an
emergency meeting on Wednesday to stage the warning strike, to protest against
the government's failure and "lack of political will" to deal with the
increasing violence and attacks on oil workers and installations in the Niger
Delta.
Esele said the unions would begin mobilization of oil workers for the
strike next week, adding that they would resist any moves by the government to
halt the strike.
Nigeria, OPEC?s sixth largest oil exporter, has been struggling to
curtail violence that erupted in the oil-rich Niger Delta since last January,
which has cut over 25% of its oil production.

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