A long-standing producer, we have also been stepping up our marketing of natural gas.

The increasing liberalization of gas markets worlwide provides customers with a larger freedom of access to suppliers which results in new, more flexible marketing modes than the traditional long-term contracts.
 
The European Union has been phasing in open competition in its natural gas market since 2000. Since July 1, 2004 all private and public sector businesses can select their natural gas supplier. Retail consumers are able to do so as from July 1, 2007.
 
Within this context, Total is stepping up its trading, marketing and logistics activities to market its gas productions to new customers, essentially professionnal customers expecting more supply flexibility.
 
Strong positions on key markets

Total's experience in this area has a solid foundation. In the United Kingdom, where the market has been fully deregulated for more than ten years, we now supply more than 60,000 public and private sector businesses and have developed an array of highly innovative products. Our sales and marketing policy enabled us to quickly become the second supplier to industrial and commercial customers, with about 20% market share.

Through its subsidiary Cepsa Gas Comercializadora in Spain, Total accounts for over 5% of the total market .

Total's 2007 sales in the United-States amounted to 1606 Bcf (45.5  billion cubic meters), whether from its own productions or external resources. The trading business in North America will be further boosted by the marketing of LNG produced by Total in Africa and the Middle East.

In France, Total's 2007 sales amounted to 245 Bcf (7 billion cubic meters) through Total Energie Gaz (Tegaz), its marketing subsidiary, with about 10% of the industrial and commercial customers.

 
For more information, contact our subsidiaries:

• Total Energie Gaz
  Immeuble Le Carillon
  5 esplanade Charles de Gaulle
  92733 Nanterre Cedex
  France
  +33 (0) 1 41 35 35 25
   e-mail France
   Total Énergie Gaz
  
  
• London: Trading
  Total Gas & Power (UK)
  10 Upper Bank Street
  Canary Wharf
  London, E14 5BF
  United Kingdom
  Tel. Main Switchboard: + 44 20 7718 6000
  24h Operations Desk: + 44 20 7718 6720
  Trading Switchboard: + 44 20 7718 6600
  
  Redhill: Marketing
  Total Gas & Power UK Marketing
  Bridge Gate
  55/57 High Street
  Redhill
  Surrey, RH1 1RX
  United Kingdom
  Tel.: + 44 1737 275 600
  Fax: + 44 1737 784908
   Total Gas &Power (UK)
  
  
• Cepsa Gas Comercializadora
  Ribeira del Loira, 50 -1A
  28042 - Madrid
  Spain
  Tel.: + 34 (91) 374-9070
  
  
• Total Gas & Power North America, Inc.
  TOTAL Plaza
  1201 Louisiana, suite 1600
  Houston, Texas 77002
  United States of America
  Tel.:  +1 713 647 4000
  Fax: +1 713 647 4030
  
  Total Gas & Power Ventures USA, Inc.
  TOTAL Plaza
  1201 Louisiana, suite 1600
  Houston, Texas 77002
  United States of America
  Tel.: +1 713 647 4003
  Fax: +1  713 647 4066
   e-mail us