Tiguentourine terrorist attack: Sonatrach CEO “Zerguine” to leave under pressure
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Abdelhamid Zerguine
Terrorist attack on Tig entourine gas base, hastened the departure of the current General Manager of Sonatrach Abdelhamid Zerguine, who succeeded Noureddine Cherouati, on November 2011, as Said Sahnoun, the vice-President in charge of downstream activities, and former director of partnership operations in the company, is expected to be appointed as his successor.
If Said Sahnoun will be appointed on Sunday, the current Sonatrach’s CEO Abdelhamid Zerguine, will be the General Manager who served for the shortest time in ever in Sonatrach, as well as being the first scapegoat who will pay for security breach in Tiguentourine, and the price of disastrous management of the institutional communication file which accompanied the operation, which reprinted a serious conflict between the statements of the Minister of Energy and Mines Youcef Yousfi, and remarks of the General Manager Abdelhamid Zerguine.
Senior officials in the group Sonatrach kept silence on Friday, refusing to confirm or deny ending the tasks of Abdelhamid Zerguine, and replacing him by Said Sahnoun, but a senior source at the Ministry of Energy and Mines, said in a statement for “Echorouk”, that the Minister of Energy and Mines, refused to engage Zerguine at the prolonged meeting that was held on Thursday evening, at the Ministry of Energy and Mines with the leaders of the Group, BP, which ended at a late hour without the participation of the General Manager of Sonatrach, who failed to get out of the crisis of corruption that erupted in 2010, which was behind the involvement of leaders in the first row of the company at prison, leaving deep psychological damage to officials causing paralysis of initiative for the majority of the human resources managers.
Three names are expected to succeed Abdelhamid Zerguine, and it comes to Ali Hached, Mechraoui Ahmed, a former director of exploitation, before settling it on Said Sahnoun, an engineer graduated from the United States of America, and has good knowledge of the production sector and partnership, as he was previously Manager of Operations of the Branch of contributions with foreign groups, a specialization that is required in the future with the entry of the new hydrocarbons law into effect, especially in the field of exploration for non-traditional sources, and exploration in areas of the north and the sea.
Echorouk sources said that the statement that hastened the departure of Zerguine, is his confirmation of the specific data about Western companies that withdraw their workers from Algeria, while government is seeking at the highest levels to reassure the public opinion domestically and internationally, about limited negative effects of Tigentourine terrorist attack on the oil industry in southern Algeria.
Tigentourine attack came to add loads on the new case of foreign workers in the company, who refuse Zerguine, as it is said at a very large scale within the company that he failed to improve communication within the competencies and employees inside the company, which is his character, as sources told Echorouk, before adding that the norm within the company for decades is that the General Manager conducted a monthly tour to the company’s facilities at the national level, to communicate directly with the workers, thing which has not been done Zerguine, who did this only once or twice since his appointment.
