Refinery operations back to normal after strike
Workers at the plant, which employs more than 400 Nigeriens, staged a
series of protests last year because of pay discrepancies between local
and Chinese employees.
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Refinery operations back to normal after strike(Guardian)
Operations restarted at Niger's
only oil refinery at the weekend after a strike over working conditions
and pay disrupted fuel deliveries for three days, a union official said
on Sunday.
The strike at the Soraz refinery, a joint venture between China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and the Niger government, began on Wednesday, restricting deliveries of oil products from the plant.
Workers
at the plant, which employs more than 400 Nigeriens, staged a series of
protests last year because of pay discrepancies between local and
Chinese employees.
Cisse Amadou, spokesman for the oil workers' union, said that 80 tankers loaded with fuel during the strike, down from the usual 300.
Further strikes are planned because many of the workers' demands have not been met, he added.
Soraz
processes about 12,000 to 16,000 barrels of oil per day, offering
Niger's only large-scale means of transforming crude oil into petroleum
products such as gasoline.
An official at the oil
ministry acknowledged the strike this week but said that supplies would
not be disrupted because deliveries can be drawn from stockpiles.
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