France’s EDF faces strikes and safety questions
Industry
A strike by French utility EDF staff in protest against restructuring plans at the firm has reduced power generation at
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Portugal fuel strike ends with more talks
Consumption
Portugal’s fuel-tanker drivers have voted to call off their strike with their union agreeing to hold more talks with the
French unions condemn GE’s job cuts
Industry
French trade unions and the opposition are furious that US industrial giant General Electric (GE) said it would cut 1,044
Macron fuel tax sparks protests
Consumption
Demonstrators from the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) movement have blocked France’s road network to oppose President Emmanuel Macron’s new fuel
North Sea oil rig strikes hit Total
Industry
The British trade union Unite announced a strike on the Alwyn, Dunbar and Elgin platforms in the North Sea yesterday.
Total faces North Sea strike
Industry
North Sea oil workers on three platforms owned by French energy giant Total have gone on strike in a dispute
Mariner votes to strike
Industry
Equinor’s Mariner heavy-oil platform in the North Sea is facing industrial action after the British GMB union said its members
Equinor relaxed over Snorre strike
Industry
Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor, which operates the Snorre B platform in the North Sea, says the site’s drilling