April 6 Iraq's southern oil export flow declined to around 1.3 million barrels per day today, down from around 1.66 million barrels per day on April 5, shipping agents said. Iraq ships about three quarters of its exports, or an average of around 1.5 million barrels per day, from Basra. The pumping rate at the port typically varies between 1.2 and 1.7 million barrels per day. A bomb attack on a pipeline branch from the Bazargan oilfield on March 27 forced Iraq to shut in around 100,000 bbl/d per day from each of three fields. Output from two of the three fields restarted on April 3. The attack was the first to disrupt southern exports since 2004, although Iraq has used oil in storage at both the fields and the terminal to minimize the impact on shipments. (Reuters)

April 25 TheNigerian labor union, PENGASSAN (the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria) announced that their workers at ExxonMobil were on strike. The walkout resulted in shut-in production at the Qua Iboe, Yoho and Ehra fields totaling approximately 780,000 barrels per day in shut-in production from April 25 to May 4, with production fully resumed by May 5. (Reuters)

April 27 Workers at Scotland’s Grangemouth refinery walked off in a dispute over pensions, leading to the closure of the North Forties Pipeline that shut-in about half the UK's North Sea oil production and a substantial amount of gas output. The strike ended on April 29. (Reuters).