Gov’t. Deploys Security Forces to Secure Shell Gabon Oil Terminal

A detachment of the national military police has been deployed at the oil terminal of the subsidiary of the Anglo-Dutch Group Shell Gabon in Gamba, some 600 km in the south-east of Libreville, a source close to the oil sector workers’ Union (ONEP) told APA on Tuesday.

The detachment was sent to the oil terminal at the request of authorities in the Gamba City and Shell Gabon which has been crippled by a strike launched by the ONEP since 19 March while President Omar Bongo Ondimba was to meet with the management of the company and the main oil sector union on Tuesday.

The deployment of security forces ”will do anything, ONEP Secretary General Patrick Wora said, adding that workers carrying pickets outside the site safely returned home.

While maintaining the pressure, the strikers demand among other things the resignation of the company’s current managing director, Dutch Hans Bakker.

Shell Gabon, Gabon’s second oil producer has lost over 90, 000 barrels/day since the strike began, according to reliable sources.

The strike has also impacted on other oil companies such as Perenco and Total which partly evacuating their production through the Shell Gamba oil terminal.

Source African Press Agency

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