Unions at Shell Plc's Prelude floating LNG (FLNG) site off Australia have extended industrial action to Sept. 1 over a long-running pay dispute, the company said on Aug. 18.
Shell shut down the 3.6-million-tonne-a-year site in July and told customers it would be unable to supply LNG cargoes for the duration of work stoppages approved by Australia's Fair Work Commission, or Protected Industrial Action.
"We can confirm it's been renewed until Sept. 1," a Shell spokesperson said of the Protected Industrial Action.
The work stoppages began on June 10 and no cargoes have been shipped from the site in about five weeks, worsening a global LNG supply crunch amid the Ukraine conflict.
The Offshore Alliance, which represents workers from the Australian Workers' Union and the Maritime Union of Australia, said on its Facebook site it would extend industrial action for as long as it took to reach a new enterprise bargain agreement with Shell.
"Our Prelude members have drawn a line in the sand on job security and have this week supported the extension of Protected Industrial Action until our bargaining claims are resolved," the Offshore Alliance said in a posting on Aug. 18.
One of the main outstanding issues is the unions' demand that Shell ensure that it will not outsource jobs to contractors at lower rates than they pay their own staff for the same jobs, the alliance said.
Unions are using an April pay deal with Japan's Inpex Corp at its Ichthys LNG operation as a benchmark for talks with other oil and gas majors.
Prelude is co-owned by Shell, Inpex, Korea Gas Corp. and Taiwan's state-run Chinese Petroleum Corp.
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