Celebrations as late-night breakthrough ends gas rig dispute

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Celebrations as late-night breakthrough ends gas rig dispute
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Shell has reached an in-principle agreement with unions after a months-long industrial dispute which shut down its floating gas facility off the Kimberley coast.

in December but was later cleared by the industry regulator and brought back online in April this year.A Shell spokesperson said the company was "pleased to confirm an in-principle enterprise agreement has been reached with the Australian Workers' Union and Electrical Trades Union".

"We are now focused on moving forward with our workforce, returning to safe, stable production and delivering affordable, reliable energy to our customers to meet the critical demands on energy security." "Thankfully at the end of the day common sense has prevailed we ended up with an outcome late last night and we went to our members this morning and presented it," Mr Walton said.

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