Business Recorder
Apr 02, 2025
PRINT EDITION ►
BR MARKETS ►
Dollar to PKR ►
Home
Latest
BR Research
Markets
Ad
☰
✕
Home
Latest
BR Research
Markets
Business & Finance
World
Editorials
Opinion
MENA
Technology
Life & Style
Sports
Perspectives
Pakistan
Supplements
Print
Close the sidebar
Workers expanding Colombia Cartagena oil refinery go on strike
Muhammad Iqbal
20 Sep, 2013
Facebook
Twitter
Whatsapp
Facebook
Twitter
Whatsapp
Read Comments
![](https://i.brecorder.com/images/2013/09/oil-400.jpg">BOGOTA: Construction workers expanding Colombia's biggest oil refinery went on strike on Friday in a dispute over a pay, halting the $6.47 billion project but leaving refining operations unaffected.</P><P class=MsoNormal>The stoppage is the first in the country's oil sector in nine years, though labor disruption has been widespread this year in the country's coal mining sector, with weeks-long stoppages at the two biggest producers of the mineral.</P><P class=MsoNormal>US-listed CB&I, or Chicago Bridge and Iron Co, has been tasked with more than doubling capacity at the Cartagena refinery known as Reficar, to 165,000 barrels by 2015 from 80,000 at present.</P><P class=MsoNormal>Reficar, fully owned by state-run oil producer Ecopetrol , said its refining operations were unaffected by the stoppage of roughly 10,000 workers on the project, which began at 10 a.m. on Friday.</P><P class=MsoNormal>)