With the wage growth mission spreading its wings across North Sea platforms, offshore workers have increasingly turned to potential industrial action pursuits to get better pay deals in the UK’s offshore energy sector, as illustrated by the latest wage win secured by workers employed on assets operated by CNOOC Petroleum Europe (CNOOC), a European affiliate of CNOOC, a Chinese state-owned oil and gas giant.

Britain’s Unite the union has delivered another wage victory in the UK, as around 130 workers have backed a pay deal with CNOOC, enabling basic pay increase of 5.5%, with further improvements to allowances worth an additional 7%. Strike action was previously supported after workers rejected several offers.