OSLO, June 4 (Reuters) - Norwegian oil workers and theiremployers have extended their pay talks past a midnight deadlinein a bid to avert a strike that would reduce the country's oiland gas output, negotiators said on Tuesday.
The Lederne trade union has threatened to strike at offshorefields operated by Equinor, Aker BP andothers, which the oil firms said would curb production by some440,000 barrels of oil equivalents per day.
The deadline for the wage talks had originally been set tomidnight on Monday (2200 GMT).(Reporting by Terje Solsvik, editing by Nerijus Adomaitis)
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