Reuters: Regulatory News: STXNEWS LATAM-Brazil oil industry workers to strike from Thursday

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STXNEWS LATAM-Brazil oil industry workers to strike from Thursday Oct 16th 2013, 23:58 Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:58pm EDT Oil industry workers in Brazil said on Wednesday that they will stop working indefinitely to protest a government decision to sell exploration rights for Libra, the nation's biggest offshore oilfield ever put up for sale. A number of oil workers' unions will also strike to demand better working conditions and increased pay, according to a statement by the United Petroleum Workers' Federation, known in Brazil as FUP. "Workers demand the immediate suspension of the auction," the statement said. Libra holds 8 billion to 12 billion barrels of recoverable oil, according to both Brazil's oil regulator, the ANP, and Dallas-based, oil-reserve certification company Degolyer & MacNaughton. Libra is the latest in a series of "subsalt" finds beginning in 2007 that struck oil southeast of Rio de Janeiro, trapped deep below the seabed by a layer of salt.

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