OGDCL protests: No oil supplies until jobs are regularised, warn workers

Against the backdrop of a nationwide energy crisis, the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) was faced with a third consecutive day of employee protests on Sunday, leaving a daily supply of 17,000 barrels of oil to refineries suspended.

The protesters, employed under a ‘third party’ contract system, are demanding regular jobs and have laid siege to the oilfields of Kunar, Tando Alam, Pasakhi, Bobi and Daru.

Hundreds of oil tankers scheduled to transport crude oil to refineries in Karachi and Attock were seen lined up in and around various oilfields. “A supply of up to 9,000 barrels per day remained suspended for the third consecutive day from the Tando Alam oilfield,” said the field’s manager, Abdul Rashid Wattoo.

The Kunar oilfield’s supplies were also blocked, which contributes around 5,000 barrels a day, said its manager Shahid Pathan. Daru and Pasakhi fields, however, continued to supply gas.

From: The Express Tribune