Dragon LNG: Contract Workers Walk Out Of UK Terminal
June 23 2009 - 7:00AM
Dow Jones News
Contract workers at the Dragon liquefied natural gas import
terminal at Milford Haven in South Wales have walked out Tuesday,
the company said in an e-mailed statement.
"Some of our contractors have left the site, we understand this
is in support of industrial action elsewhere in the U.K," Dragon
said in the statement.
A spokeswoman for Dragon couldn't immediately confirm the number
of workers involved in the industrial action, but she told Dow
Jones Newswires that operations at the terminal would continue as
normal.
Contract workers at energy facilities across the U.K. have
staged unofficial walkouts since Friday after French oil major
Total SA's (TOT) laid off 647 contract workers at its Lindsey oil
refinery in Lincolnshire.
Construction work at Dragon is on schedule and the terminal is
expecting its first gas delivery by mid 2009, the spokeswoman
added.
Dragon terminal's shareholders include BG Group (BG.LN),
Petronas and 4Gas.
-By Reza Amanat, Dow Jones Newswires; 4420-7842-9487;
reza.amanat@dowjones.com