Who will SNPC boss R. Ominga appoint head of Perenco JV, Congorep ?

摘要

Congorep, the firm 49% controlled by state firm Societe nationale des petroles du Congo (SNPC) is still short of a deputy managing director since Jean Robert Ippet Letembet’s departure. Letembet, who previously worked for Total, has taken a position with Perenco, owner of the remaining 51% of the JV founded in 1986. Congorep has operated the Emeraude oil field abandoned by Elf since 2000. According to our sources, there are three names circulating the corridors of the SNPC for the post. 58-year-old Ernest Denis Souamy, appointed head of the down -stream regulation agency ARAP in 2015, could have the backing of Congolese minister of hydrocarbons Jean-Marc Thystere Tchicaya as both hail from Pointe-Noire. The former SNPC tax and legal director, Blaise Elenga, 58 years old, is also in pole position for the role. He is a close friend of the SNPC boss Raoul Ominga and has worked in downstream with the president’s son Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso. The third name on everyone’s lips is Hilarion Bounsana, 63 years old, the former head of SNPC subsidiary Integrated Logistics Services.