India: Blockade by tribal protesters hits oil production

Guwahati


AAMYCS has been pressing OIL to announce a Rs10bn ($253m) economic package for the Muttock ethnic group, who dominate certain areas where the company operates in eastern Assam.

“Oil production has been hit and several operational sites were forced to shut down as we were unable to send our workers due to the strike,” Phanindra Dev Choudhury, an OIL spokesman, told IANS over telephone. “We are yet to assess the production loss. It would be quite substantial,” Choudhury said.

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