Senior Nigerian employees of US oil major Chevron have started strike action this week to protest against job cuts and non-payment of allowances, with the potential to disrupt the company’s oil production, union officials said Thursday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now A Chevron spokeswoman confirmed the strike that began Tuesday had shut its offices in Lagos and at its operational base in the southern Escravos area. The company was taking steps to ensure there is no disruption to production, she said. “This is a unilateral industrial action based on inaccurate information,” she said. Chevron’s net crude oil production in Nigeria averaged 194,000 b/d in 2018, according to the company’s data. It further produced 233 Mcf/d of and 6,000 b/d of LPG. An official from Nigeria’s main oil workers union Pengassan said if Chevron failed to address urgently workers’ demands to […]