By Lefteris Karagiannopoulos OSLO, July 19 (Reuters)– Owners of Norwegian oil well are thinking about enforcing a lockout on employees as a high-stakes wager to attempt to finish a strike by nearly 1,600 personnel that started recently.

A lockout would certainly entail protecting against personnel from accessing installments till a bargain is struck. It can motivate the federal government to attempt to enforce a negotiation and also send out employees back to the gears.

“Yes, a lockout is an option, it is on the daily agenda … And options are limited,” Jakob Korsgaard, primary mediator for the Norwegian Shipowners Association, informed Reuters.

He decreased to state what the options were and also when the shipowners anticipated to determine their following relocation. In enhancement to the close to 1,600 employees on strike, an additional 1,500 personnel get on leave as gears needed to be closed.

A state-appointed moderator is speaking with gear proprietors and also the Norwegian union to attempt to solve the strike however he advised that it was prematurely to state if the disagreement can be resolved.

Norway’s Safe union on Monday rose a strike it started on July 10 over pay and also pension plans and also intends more activity that can influence a vessel’s procedures inBritain The effect on Norway’s oil manufacturing has actually been restricted up until now.

Safe and also the shipowners have actually not chatted straight per various other given that the strike started over needs for a wage rise and also pension plan civil liberties.

“A solution depends on the parties being willing to give something to each other… I have some contacts with them but if we are closer to a solution, I can’t say for the time being,” moderator Carl Petter Martinsen informed Reuters.

Safe educated the moderator that it is preparing to somewhat broaden its strike activity by taking a more 30 staff members far from job.

The strike expansion would certainly influence, to name a few vessels, the Island Constructor, a well treatment ship possessed by Island Offshore that is presently operating at Premier Oil’s Huntington area in the British North Sea, the vessel’s proprietor informed Reuters.

“It is working to enhance production in the field. The strike will interrupt the operations,” stated Island Offshore handling supervisor Haavard Ulstein.

The area’s manufacturing will certainly not be impacted. Ulstein stated a long term strike can terminate an agreement Island Constructor has with an additional oil company after its operate at Huntington.

“It is definitely a worry for us,” he stated, decreasing to offer information of that agreement.

Earlier today a lot more drillers, consisting of Odfjell Drilling, advised that if the strike lasts a month or even more, it can cause discontinuation of exploration agreements inNorway (Editing by Keith Weir)

( c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2018.