In a meeting with the Tunisian Minister of Industry and Energy, Wilham Sacmier, General Director of the Austrian oil and gas company OMV said that the company has been recording large losses that threaten its continuation inside Tunisia.
In order to function, the company has been forced to review working hours and reduce wages with up to an incredible 60 percent cut.
The company’s general manager has expressed the desire to find solutions to resume production, which has halted since mid-July 2020 due the shutdown of the valve of the TRABSA Company which caused massive disruption of the transportation of fuel in the El Kamour area, Tataouine. According to a statement by the ministry on its official Facebook page today, Saturday 12th.
In the meeting that took place on Friday at the Ministry's headquarters, OMV representatives stressed the importance of securing production and work sites, the need to avoid further delay in the paying bills/local partners before the end of the fiscal year 2020.
It is noteworthy that the oil pumping station in Kamour has been closed since July 17, 2020 in an escalating movement of protests by young people in the region, demanding their right to work and development.
The protesters refuse to restart the station except in the case of implementing all the provisions of the Kamour Agreement, which has been signed with the government since June 16, 2017.
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