OSLO (Reuters) - Workers at three plants serving Norway's gas and oil industry agreed a new wage deal early on Friday, avoiding a strike that could have cut supplies of natural gas to Britain and liquefied natural gas (LNG) to customers worldwide, the negotiators said.
Altogether 338 workers at Statoil's (OL:STL) Melkoeya LNG plant, Shell's (L:RDSa) Nyhamna natural gas processing plant and ExxonMobil's (N:XOM) Slagen refinery terminal had been scheduled to strike unless a deal was reached.
Nyhamna processes gas from the Ormen Lange field off Norway, which can provide up to 20 percent of Britain's gas needs.