Gabon strike 'not affecting' Total, Shell output

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By News Wires

 12 March 2013 22:55 GMT

Supermajors Total and Shell said a three-day-old strike by the oil workers' union in Gabon has not affected their operations, despite union reports to the contrary, according to a report.

"The strike has been marginal, only a handful of workers are participating in it," Mathurin Mengue-Bibang, a spokesman for Total in Gabon, told Reuters.

"Our operations are ongoing, a ship was loaded at our Cape Lopez terminal and it departed today," Mengue-Bibang said.

A spokesman for Shell also said its operations in the central African country had not been affected, the news wire reported.

The two companies dominate Gabon's roughly 240,000 barrels per day crude oil sector.

The powerful ONEP oil workers' union said on Saturday it had begun an open-ended strike to demand the…

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