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10 July 2018
LIBREVILLE, July 10 (Infosplusgabon) – As a result of unsuccessful negotiations, the expiry of the 15-day strike notice filed with Total Gabon's Executive Board on June 30, led to the launch of a strike whose consequences could affect the oil sector.
The strike concerns all the facilities of Total Gabon, a subsidiary of the French Total Group, where its staff operates, was initiated Monday by the National Organization of Petroleum Employees (ONEP) to defend the interests of Total employees Gabon.
The strike should be followed in Libreville, Port-Gentil, on the sites of Anguille, Mandji Island, Cape Lopez and Torpille, it is said.
An attempt at conciliation was was initiated successively from 29 June to 1 and July in Port-Gentil, at the initiative of the Special Inspector of Labor in charge of the petroleum sector, then from 2 to 6 July under the auspices of the Minister of Labor. Work and former secretary general of ONEP, Arnauld Calixte Engandji Alandji
The various points contained in the specifications n ' having not been respected, the strike was thus started. However, ONEP assures that a minimum service will be respected.
Total Gabon, a historical operator in oil prospecting and exploitation in Gabon, raised its net income to $ 23 million in the first quarter of 2018, making it has multiplied by 5 its profits following the increase in the average selling price of its two grades of crude traded in Gabon, the Mandji crude and crude Rabi light The turnover reached $ 208 million in the first quarter 2018, down 1%, the price effect offsetting lower sales volumes.
Does Total Gabon Have a Crisis of Confidence?
The Crisis Hides Dashed the French Group's Desire to Leave Gabon or Limit its Activities in Favor of More Buoyant Oil Fields in Angola or in the Congo, in particular. And then, the departure of Shell Gabon, another leading operator, has certainly given ideas to Total Gabon.
Gabon could then become a kind of rear base, or a vast oil equipment storage warehouse that would serve elsewhere. Several executives, badly thanked today, since 2015 for a malicious scheme of voluntary departure not sufficiently supported financially, according to a group of executives who chose to lead the case before the French and Gabonese courts.
What is really happening in Total Gabon? and what do the leaders of this company think of the orders of the French Group based in the district of La Défense, in the suburbs of Paris? Are we moving towards a redistribution of roles by trampling on labor legislation? Does Gabon consider the city of Port-Gentil to be a Republic in a Republic? So many questions that should find answers in our next editions.
Formerly known as the Petroleum Society of French Equatorial Africa (SPAEF) when it was created on July 30, 1949, the SPAEF had its shares officially listed. April 8, 1958. Became SPAFE on February 26, 1960, then Elf SPAFE in 1968 and Elf Gabon on July 18, 1973, the company's name became Total Gabon on September 18, 2003 following the merger of the Elf and TotalFina Groups.
Although the discovery of the first commercially exploitable deposit dates from the beginning of 1956, the first geological reconnaissance missions of Gabonese territory by French geologists date back to 1928.
Total Gabon's capital amounts to 76 500,000 US dollars. It is divided between the Total Group through its subsidiary Elf Aquitaine (wholly-owned subsidiary of Total Group): 58.28%; the Gabonese Republic: 25% and the Public: 16,72%.
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