As one of China’s leading business partners, Total expresses its ongoing social responsibility through programs designed to drive economic and social development, while improving local health care and education.

• In the Upstream, Total and PetroChina signed a production sharing contract on March 2, 2006, for the appraisal, development and production of the natural gas resources of the South Sulige block in Inner Mongolia. In Gas & Power, talks are underway with PetroChina for the Group, which is the leader of Iran’s Pars LNG project, to supply around 4 million metric tons of LNG a year for 25 years beginning in 2010.
• In the Downstream, we own a 22.4% stake in the Dalian refinery, alongside Sinochem (33.7%), CNPC (PetroChina’s parent company, 28.4%) and the city of Dalian (15.5%). Petroleum products are marketed through a network of nine service stations, with three others under construction. In addition, an agreement signed with Sinochem in September 2005 calls for the creation of a second network, with 300 stations, in the Shanghai region.
• In the Chemicals business, we operate through our Total Petrochemicals subsidiary, which owns several manufacturing and marketing subsidiaries.

While China represents a major source of future growth for Total, we are committed to expanding our local influence beyond simply deploying our technical expertise. We also intend to position Total as a social and community partner, providing assistance in health care and education. This social responsibility process is being expressed in a wide variety of programs.

Emergency Health Care

In today’s post-SARS environment and in the absence of any coordination between hospital systems and local pre-hospital care services, our health care assistance programs focus on developing effective emergency medical care, in partnership with multilateral organizations, ministries, municipalities and NGOs. This is particularly important as the country prepares to host the 2008 Olympic Games.

• As described in a November 2007 memorandum of understanding, our commitment to health care programs is long-term, with the creation and leadership of a Sino-French Emergency Care Training Center and a Sino-French emergency medicine university curriculum designed to develop an effective emergency care system in China.
• In a more short-term program, since early 2008, Total has been helping to finance an emergency physician training course just ahead of the Olympic Games. Under the patronage of the French Embassy in Beijing, Total is partnering with the Paris public hospital system and the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau to finance and organize a one-year specialty training program in Paris hospitals for 30 Chinese emergency physicians. Upon their return to China, participants will train other doctors through a local organization set up with Total’s support. In early 2008, these training programs will be extended in Beijing by an intensive, four-week course for physicians in ambulance services and 21 participating hospitals, who may be called on to provide emergency care during the Beijing Olympics.  Two Sino-French conventions on emergency and disaster medicine have been held in Beijing.

In a first for China, Total is sponsoring first aid classes in high schools. In partnership with the Center for Disease Control, 720 students aged 13 to 17 in eighteen high schools have been trained in basic first aid and a first aid handbook has been distributed. A nationwide program is expected to be developed over the next three years.

Raising Awareness of Hepatitis and HIV Infection

• A Group program is financing the China Foundation for Hepatitis  Prevention and Control, a state-owned not-for-profit foundation.
• From October 2007 to March 2008, the Together, HBV Initiative led 37 sensitivity training sessions, attended by almost 700 of our nearly 4,000 local employees. This was the first initiative of its type undertaken on such a large scale and its impact is currently being assessed. It will probably be repeated, in particular at our partner, PetroChina.

Officially, there are nearly 650,000 people living with HIV in China, or 30% more than in 2006. Our operations in China are raising employee awareness of HIV/AIDS, with the development in May 2007 of an HIV/AIDS policy that is expected to lead to a broad-based information campaign in 2008.

Nurturing Local Talent

Our education and training-related programs are designed to support the emergence of local talent.  Total is the third founding member of the Ecole Centrale of Beijing, attended by nearly 120 students a year. In particular, we provide financial support for the school and share our expertise as a member of its advisory board.

Other initiatives undertaken to support the education of our future local and international managers include an International Energy Management post-master’s program, the creation of a master’s degree in Environmental Law at Université de Paris-Sud in partnership with Wuhan University, beginning in September 2008, and a master’s degree in Industrial Risks in Shanghai. Since 2003, Chinese students have been invited to participate in postgraduate programs that allow international students to further their education in France. These programs generally last between 18 months and three years, depending on the curricula, and lead to master’s degrees, MBAs and doctorates. Lastly, 35 Chinese students have attended the Total Summer School since 2006, while in August 2007, the Total Professeurs Associés association organized the first summer school program at Peking University.

Total’s social responsibility process in China has already been effectively structured to make a difference over the long-term, with primary school support programs, aid to disadvantaged children, sustainable development training for teachers, the creation of the Total Environmental Education Fund to raise awareness of environmental stewardship issues, and support for programs to fight global warming.