Worker strike briefly disrupts Taq Taq field
Workers protested against proposed cuts to staff and salaries with a two-day walkout, temporarily reducing crude supply to a local refinery.
A flare burns at the Taq Taq oil field in 2016. (STAFF/Iraq Oil Report)
ERBIL - Hundreds of workers at the Kurdistan region’s lynchpin Taq Taq oil field staged a two-day walkout Wednesday and Thursday in a dispute over pay and staff cuts, temporarily shutting off supplies to one to the region’s main refineries.
“Trucking oil out of the facility has been halted because employees at the loading station aren’t showing up to work,” said an oil engineer from the site on Thursday morning, who had joined the strike.
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