Around 11% of Norway offshore oil workers threaten to strike (updated)

Orron Energy AB

07/06/2022 12:24

(Recasts with all three labour unions, Equinor reaction)
    OSLO, June 7 (Reuters) - More than one in ten Norwegian
offshore oil and gas workers plan strike action from Sunday if
state-brokered wage mediation fails, a Reuters calculation based
on labour union data showed on Tuesday.
    A strike by 845 of Norway's roughly 7,500 offshore oil and
gas production workers would hit a limited amount of oil output,
while gas supply would be unaffected, according to statements by
trade unions Industri Energi, Lederne and Safe.
    Workers are seeking above-inflation pay increases and other
changes to their contracts but have not released details of
their demands.
    Oil firm Equinor  EQNR.OL , the biggest operator of
platforms off Norway, said it was too early to comment on the
potential production impact.
    Norway is western Europe's largest petroleum producer,
pumping around four million barrels of oil equivalents per day,
divided roughly equally between oil and natural gas.

 (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, writing by Terje Solsvik,
editing by Gwladys Fouche)
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