An open letter to P. JAFFRE, President of ELF-Aquitaine

DO NOT HARM OUR COMPANY

Mr President,

We ran here to say that as salaries of ELF Exploration Production, we are innovative and reactive without any " Performance project ".

Trough this pedestrian race between both of our company’s premises, we show how the salaries of ELF EP may rise and act efficiently toward an ambitious project.

We give between Pau and Paris a positive image of our company, the real one of an aggressive, winning company whose staff quickly rise whatever their craft for a common goal.

You want to break this dynamics, Mr President.

With the so-called " Performance project ", its 1,500 jobs loss (half of the staff !) and its social consequences, you will spoil the basic richness of our company, i.e. the know-how of men and women who made her life for more than 20 years. This is an immediate threat to her future.

With the single objective of increasing the share return, you now say to your salaries " Go and work elsewhere ". This cannot be accepted. All skills within the Exploration-Production are threatened by this purely financial logic, and the objectives of immediate money. We will not let our company plundered that way.

If changes are needed at ELF EP, they can be done with the management within an industrial strategy.

The diversity of origin of the runners show here the wide rejection the " Performance project " meets.

We say it loud and clear, Mr President

DO NOT HARM OUR COMPANY

She was built through our work, we are proud of her, we will work for her evolution and long life.