The silence of Hubert Chazarenc's family in exchange for a check: the deal that the oil group Perenco wanted to conclude

Hubert Chazarenc was 34 years old. He was a strapping 1.90 meter tall man, muscular, athletic, hardworking, and passionate about oil drilling, his profession for the past eight years. He lived in Bayonne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) with his partner, Lola Guignabert, with whom he had just entered into a civil partnership after four years together. The couple had many plans. Even though he loved drilling, the young man was saving up to set up his own business as a carpenter and zinc worker in the Basque Country.

In early November 2020, when he joined his platform off the coast of Cameroon, he promised his partner that it would be his last mission. He had been working regularly on this site for a year, hired by a subcontractor for Petrofor (founded in Nassau, Bahamas) on the offshore platform of the Franco-British group Perenco.

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