Again, NUPENG, NNPC, others meet to resolve crisis with Chevron

Stakeholders in the oil and gas industry, including Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS) are meeting again today to resolve the crisis between Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and Chevron Nigeria Limited, a major player in the upstream sector of the economy. Parties to the crisis met in Lagos on Thursday in the effort to avert the planned industrial action by

NUPENG against Chevron, which could disrupt operations in the fragile oil and gas sector. Afolabi Olawale, general secretary of NUPENG, told Businessday on Thursday that following the intervention of NNPC and NAPIMS, another meeting had been scheduled today by 11am, and the outcome would determine whether or not NUPENG would proceed with its actions against Chevron, just as he advised members to be on red alert. NUPENG is accusing Chevron of violating agreement reached with the union of which NNPC, NAPIMS and the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment were a party. President of NUPENG, Williams Akporeha, had knocked Chevron over alleged consistent refusal to honour the agreement signed by the parties. “It is a public knowledge that the unions in the oil and gas industry had a protracted negotiation with Chevron Nigeria Limited over 70% labour manpower reduction which they (Chevron) claimed was required in view of reductions in their operations in the Nigeria oil and gas industry,” Akporeha said.