Nigerian Union Ends Threat to Halt Oil Exports as Staff Released
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A Nigerian oil-industry union called off plans for a strike that threatened the country’s crude exports, after authorities released workers accused of breaking rules aimed at containing the coronavirus.
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria suspended the strike hours before it was to have started at midnight on Sunday. The union, known as Pengassan, had planned to halt operations at all crude-exporting facilities to protest the detention of 21 Exxon Mobil Corp. employees by authorities in Rivers State, it said in an emailed statement.