Altogether 338 workers at Statoil's (>> Statoil ASA) Melkoeya LNG plant, Shell's Nyhamna natural gas processing plant and ExxonMobil's (>> Exxon Mobil Corporation) Slagen refinery terminal had been scheduled to strike unless a deal was reached.

Nyhamna processes gas from the Ormen Lange field off Norway, which can provide up to 20 percent of Britain's gas needs.

(Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, editing by Terje Solsvik)

Stocks treated in this article : Exxon Mobil Corporation, Statoil ASA