Contractors brace for Norway strike

Strike threat: for Subsea 7 and other contractors off Norway

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Steve Marshall

 04 September 2012 14:31 GMT

Around 360 Norwegian oil services workers from five companies reportedly could go on strike later this month if wage and benefits negotiations fail, just two months after a production workers’ strike shut part of the country's oil and gas industry.

"If a strike happens, construction and exploration is most likely to be hit, not production," Arild Theimann, a spokesman for Norway's largest oil workers union, Industri Energi, told Reuters on Tuesday.

“Oil service workers have assignments on all kinds of installations, so it is hard to tell which installations are going to be affected in the event of a strike,” he said.

The possible strike by oil services workers would include employees of Halliburton (120), Schlumberger (120), Weatherford (65), Subsea 7 (35) and Oceaneering (20).

Wage negotiations between the union and employees broke down…

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