Returning to work after bloody weekend: Pluspetrol employee
Pluspetrol to resume pumping
Argentina's Pluspetrol will resume operations today or tomorrow at an oilfield in Peru's Amazon, where protesters killed a police officer over the weekend.
Pluspetrol halted work at Block 1AB in the Loreto region in Peru's northern jungle early on Thursday after protesters demanding higher salaries took it over, along with a local airstrip.
According to Reuters, one police officer was killed and five others wounded when they tried to remove workers from company installations on Saturday.
The company said operations will resume at some point between Monday and Tuesday.
For every day of the suspension, Pluspetrol has said it will be able to pump only about half of the 47,00 barrels it extracts from Peru's jungle each day.