Petrofac tells Tunisia it starting shutdown over protests - official, source

British oil and gas industry services company Petrofac has told Tunisia's government it has started to shut down its local operations after months of protests disrupted gas output, a government official and a Petrofac source said on Wednesday. Petrofac, which supplies around 13 percent of the North African country's domestic gas needs, sent a letter to the government saying it had begun the process of leaving Tunisia, the two sources said. Prime Minister Youssef Chahed was holding an emergency m