ExxonMobil?s workers protest layoff plan
Thursday, June 26 2003 - 02:24 AM WIB
The protesting workers held a demonstration at EMOI?s compound in Lhok Sukon, North Aceh.
They demanded that the laid off plan be postponed until the ongoing military operation in Aceh has ended.
Meanwhile, EMOI?s spokesperson Deva Rachman acknowledged on Wednesday that the number of workers at its gas production operations in Aceh would be reduced significantly as the company?s manpower and related service contracts would expire this year.
?Due to declining gas production and substantially reduced field activities, EMOI will be tendering for services under two new contracts at significantly reduced levels,? EMOI?s spokesperson Deva Rachman told Petromindo.Com.
Gas production from EMOI?s Arun Field in Aceh has fallen from 220 liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes in the early nineties to 113 last year, Deva said.
Deva said that a number of existing manpower and related service contracts for EMOI would expire at the end of their full term on June 30. Other contracts that expire later in the year were under review and were also likely to be retendered at reduced service levels, Deva said.
Deva said the two new contracts being tendered would engage up to 1,200 fewer workers than the total number involved in the four contracts expiring at the end of next month.
?Many of the current workers are under utilized,? she added. (alex)