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Oil strike has limited effect

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    A strike by Nigerian oil workers protesting the transfer of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to the Ministry of the Environment has had limited affect on motorists so far, a news source in Lagos told IRIN on Tuesday.

    “The strike has not had the type of impact that will cause any problems at the moment,” the source said.

    However, ‘The Guardian’ reported some experts as saying that an expected windfall from high crude prices and oil exports from Bonny, Escravos, Forcados and Qua Iboe terminals may have been lost. Crude oil prices are currently at about US $30 per barrel.

    Members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) suspended work on Monday claiming they were not consulted about the department’s transfer to the ministry, the chairman of the PENGASSAN Lagos chapter, George Bada, told the ‘The Guardian’.

    Some 150 placard-waving DPR employees in the south-eastern oil town of Warri said the transfer of the DPR Safety and Environmental Unit was done “to satisfy some fraudulent and unpatriotic Nigerians in the corridors of power”.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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