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War between Addax and ONEP only just beginning

A strike that lasted two weeks will leave a mark on a company where labour-employer relations are strained and reasons for new conflicts are already popping up. [...] (328 words)

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GABON
Addax Petroleum
Organisation Nationale des Employes du Petrole
Sinopec Group

Addax Petroleum's staff waiting for the chop

Employees of the Chinese major have received some uncomfortable news. Nearly a quarter of them at the firm’s Geneva headquarters are to be shown the door. [...]

GABON 15/09/2015

Thierry Normand will grasp the nettle for Addax

According to our sources, Thierry Normand has been hired as the new managing director of Addax Gabon. While most of [...]

GABON 14/07/2015

Addax caught up in new wrangle with government

Relations between the Chinese group and Libreville could worsen once again with a new scandal. And this time Addax’s supporter in presidential circles could allow the matter to run its course. [...]

GABON 16/06/2015

Chinese communist party shows an interest in Addax

The management of Addax Petroleum (bought by Sinopec in 2009) [...]

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GABON 02/06/2015

Looming scandal over uncounted barrels

The amount of crude really produced by oil companies has always been a delicate subject in Gabon. With the drop in the oil price cutting into the country's revenue, the Direction Generale des Hydrocarbures (DGH) was recently ordered to conduct [. [...]

GABON 31/03/2015

Addax ordered to explain role of its middle-man

Executives from the Chinese major are currently in Libreville to tell the president why they have been paying a mysterious lobbyist. [...]

GABON 03/03/2015

Philippe Menegatti finds it hard settling in at Addax

Addax Gabon’s technical director, the 57-year-old French national Philippe Menegatti, feels uncomfortable in his job. For months he has been [...]

GABON 03/03/2015

The knives are still out among Addax staffers

The Chinese company, dispirited by its poor performances in 2014, is pursuing its probe into dubious recruitments in its Gabonese affiliate. [...]

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GABON 06/01/2015

ONEP could face a slow death

Launched on Dec. 1, a strike headed by the union Organisation Nationale des Employes du Petrole (ONEP) in Gabon’s oil and gas sector has entered its second month. Although the walkout is running out of steam at oil companies, the [. [...]

GABON 17/12/2014

ONEP on warpath against bosses

It is bad idea to cross the Organisation Nationale des [...]

GABON 16/12/2014

Strike takes hold and the government knuckles down

Production has dropped a lot since a walkout called by ONEP began on Dec. 1. So how are the government and companies coping? [...]

GABON 02/12/2014

Bongo fears a general strike

Tension in the oil industry has climbed to its highest point since a walkout in February 2013 that shut down production. The government is doing its utmost to avoid a repetition. [...]

GABON 18/11/2014

Ngoubou fears strike call at Addax

According to our sources, a strike notice was submitted to [...]

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GABON 25/03/2014

Addax faces crushing government demands

The end to the legal battle between Gabon’s authorities and the Chinese firm Addax Petroleum in 2013 was by no means the end to the saga. Some articles in the new, 10-year accord on the Obangue, Tsiengui and Autour fields [. [...]

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