Protests at a Chevron gas plant in Nigeria have ended after a war of words between the oil giant and local workers over the incident.
Chevron claimed that more than 1000 of its workers had been held hostage at the camp by protestors.
But campaigners say they had not been paid after successfully completing the Escravos gas-to-liquid project in Ugborodo and were beaten and fired on with tear gas by soldiers.
“Chevron confirms that more than 1,000 junior contract workers locked down over the past five days in our EGTL camp have been freed,” the company confirmed this morning.
“We are happy that this has been finally brought to a peaceful conclusion.”
The oil firm alleged that protestors had kept project workers on the site against their will, until members of the Joint Task Force operating in the region freed over the weekend.
The £5.6billion gas-to-liquids plant will be able to process more than 320million cubic feet per day of natural gas.
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