BASRA, Iraq, May 21 (Reuters) - Shell has evacuated its
foreign staff, numbering around 60, from Iraq's Basra Gas
Company and flew them out of Iraq on Wednesday, two Basra Gas
Company executives told Reuters.
The staff were evacuated for security reasons after workers
who had been laid off from work staged a protest in the Basra
Gas Company headquarters and close to another company compound,
two officials said.
Basrah Gas Company is a joint venture between state-owned
South Gas Company, Shell and Mitsubishi.
(Reporting by Aref Mohammed; Writing by Ahmed Rasheed; Editing
by Edmund Blair)