After three weeks of strike, Norwegian workers union Industry Energy says its call for equal pay between operator, drilling, catering and oil service staff on the Norwegian Continental Shelf has been accepted, ending the strike.
More than 300 oil service employees in Norway went on strike after mediation talks were said to have failed.
Industry Energy says walk outs are reported at Schlumberger Norway, Baker Hughes Norway, Halliburton Norway, Oceaneering and Oceaneering Asset Integrity. The strike impacted oilfield drilling activity, but not production operations.
"After three weeks of strike, Industri Energi won backing for its demand to even out wage differences between oil service employees and other oil workers," chief negotiator Ommund Stokka of the labor union said in a statement.
In a separate statement, the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association, which represents oil companies, confirmed a deal had been struck.
The strike action in Norway comes just months after workers went on strike in the UK North Sea. Nearly 400 workers in the RMT and Unite unions staged strikes earlier this summer over up to 30% pay cuts and changes to allowances. The workers work for Wood Group on oil major Shell's assets in the North Sea.
The strikes, over 24 hours and then 48 hours, in July and August, were the first in 28 years. A "mutually agreeable proposal" was agreed and the strike action halted in September.
Image from Baker Hughes.
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