Nigeria's NPDC workers strike, 100,000 b/d oil output shut in: unions

Nigerian oil workers' unions at state-owned Nigerian Petroleum Development Co Tuesday said they have begun industrial action to protest the transfer of the operatorship by the government of prolific onshore oil block OML 42, sold by Shell, to an indigenous company.

The strike by the NPDC branches of the white collar Pengassan and its blue-collar counterpart Nupeng to protest the transfer of OML 42 to Neconde Energy, shut down about 100,000 b/d of NPDC's oil production, union and company sources said.

Sources later told Platts that protesting workers had pulled out of oil fields operated by NPDC except OML 38.