TAP) – A three-day strike notice (February 3, 4 or 5) was issued Monday by staffers of Perenco oil company (Chargui field) in Kerkannah.

The decision was taken after a meeting with the regional labour office in Sfax as “the administration failed to meet its commitments to the staff members”, said the strike-notice statement.

The workers claim the application"...

Just as tensions in the Middle East began to escalate, it seemed that regional, political and military factors will significantly influence oil price increase in the long term. Yet, it proved that no more than a week after a partial relief, crude oil prices are 10 % down, Gulf Brokers reported.

While price of Brent Crude oil marker grew to 70 USD per barrel shortly after the attacks, it declined to 64 USD per barrel on 16th January. Furthermore,"...

Anton Oilfield Services Group, an international integrated oilfield service company, had an anniversary gala with about 500 guests in Beijing on January 19th, 2020 to celebrate their 20 years of achievement.

From local start-up to international company

Anton Oilfield Services Group was established in Tarim Basin, China in 1999. Under the leadership of Luo Lin, the entrepreneurial"...

(TAP)-The consortium made up of ENGIE and NAREVA has just been declared provisional highest bidder of the tender for the construction of the Gafsa photovoltaic power plant, launched in an international call for tenders by the Ministry of Industry and SMEs and the Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (STEG).

According to ENGIE, the world's largest independent electricity producer and a major player in natural gas and energy services, the Gafsa"...

SNC-Lavalin announces that it has been awarded an engineering services contract from Al Dhafra Petroleum, a joint venture company between ADNOC and the Korea National Oil Corporation and GS Energy. This contract win is aligned with SNC-Lavalin’s new strategy moving forward to greater growth and engineering services.

Under the nine-month agreement, SNC-Lavalin will provide front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for the second phase"...

The Government of Tunisia is collaborating with the country’s mobile operators to develop an SMS-based early warning system to alert citizens at risk of major natural disasters.

The new service forms part of the launch of the GSMA’s ‘We Care’ initiative in Tunisia by local operators Ooredoo, Orange and Tunisie Telecom, marking the first launch of We Care in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

The"...

JOHANNESBURG – President Cyril Ramaphosa has given the government the thumbs up to thrash out legislation that will allow companies and households to generate their own electricity in a bid to alleviate the burden on the national grid.

Embattled state-owned power utility Eskom is struggling to keep the lights on as it battles unplanned breakdowns at its ageing coal-fired power stations across the country. Speaking at the second annual Business"...

(TAP)- A Tunisian business mission will be organised to Nantes, France, on the fringes of BIOGAZ EUROPE 2020, the reference international exhibition for green and renewable gas, set for January 29-30, the Agency for the Promotion of Industry and Innovation (French: APII) said.

The APII, a member of the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN Tunisia), is organising this mission"...

(TAP) - The Tataouine Regional Labour Union (URT) has called for a strike in the region's oil fields, with production stopping on January 22.

The strike was called to urge the Italian oil company ENI and the “Société de Développement et d'Exploitation du Permis du Sud” (SODEPS) to implement the agreement reached on May"...

TAP) - The crisis unit relating to the olive sector, decided on Friday, at the end of an emergency meeting in Parliament, to draft a bill to create a support fund for the olive sector.

The decision comes at a time when the olive growing season (2019-2020), which is about to register a record harvest estimated at 350 thousand tonnes, is experiencing an unprecedented crisis and financial difficulties encountered, in particular, by oil mills and exporting"...