The union members chanted solidarity songs in protest over the death of the contract staff and carried placards.
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Lumumba Okugbawa, General-Secretary of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, said this in a telephone conversation with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
It even pledged to support regulators in tracing the source.
The youths expressed hope that the anticipated upsurge in project activities would create jobs for them as they have a pool of skilled youths in specialised oil and gas vocations.
The unions, National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) gave the directive in a joint statement on Sunday.
The oil firm said the development followed the evolving negative operational environment in the energy sector.
Musa Idris, Director-General of NOSDRA, in a telephone interview with News Agency of Nigeria confirmed that the fire outbreak started at the weekend
The company reacted in a statement on Thursday
Chevron Nigeria Limited has held divergent views with members of its host communities in Bayelsa State on the cause of dead fishes littering the Atlantic coastline near the oil firm’s operations.
Members the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, Chevron branch, on Monday staged a peaceful protest at the Lagos office of Chevron Nigeria Limited in Lekki, over alleged welfare issues.
The ad-hoc committee set up by the Ondo State House of Assembly to investigate the inferno at Ojumole Oil field has directed Chevron Nigeria Limited to clean up the affected communities.
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers says it has backed down on its planned industrial action to protest against its disagreement with Chevron Nigeria Limited.
Twenty-one communities affected by the Ojumole Oil Well fire incident in Ilaje Local Government area of Ondo State, on Tuesday demanded for 2.5 billion dollars as compensation from the Chevron Nigeria Limited.
The Delta State Government has waded into the ongoing face-off between the Polobubo (Tsekelewu) community in Warri North Local Government Area of the state and Chevron Nigeria Limited.
The Ondo State House of Assembly has directed Chevron Nigeria Limited to come and address the House on its inability to quench the fire incident raging at the Ojumole Oil Well in Ugbo llaje.
The people of Ugborodo communities in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta on Monday protested over its alleged neglect by the Chevron Nigeria Limited.
The Ondo State Deputy Governor, Hon. Agboola Ajayi, while receiving the delegation from Chevron in his office in Akure on Monday, called on the company to deploy all necessary resources to ensure the fire was put out on time and forestall recurrence of such incidence
Texaco Nigeria Outer Shelf, a subsidiary of Chevron Nigeria Limited, has donated a hybrid library to the Maryam Babangida Girls Science College, Minna, Niger State.
Chevron Nigeria Limited and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation have agreed to supply 70 million standard cubic feet per day of natural gas to Dangote Fertilizer Limited for start up and operation of the new plant.
The Group Managing Director, NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru, has urged oil workers to halt their planned strike over a labour dispute involving Chevron Nigeria Limited management and the staff.