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A global multi-energy provider

  • World’s fourth-largest integrated listed oil and gas company (1)
  • Largest market capitalization on the Paris Bourse and the eurozone: €132.6 billion at December 31, 2006
  • 95,000 employees
  • Operations in more than 130 countries
  • Exploration and production operations in 42 countries
  • Producer in 30 countries
  • Approximately 570,000 French individual shareholders
  • 2006 sales: €153.8 billion

With operations in more than 130 countries, Total engages in all aspects of the petroleum industry, including Upstream operations (oil and gas exploration, development and production, LNG) and Downstream operations (refining, marketing and the trading and shipping of crude oil and petroleum products).
Total also produces base chemicals (petrochemicals and fertilizers) and specialty chemicals for the industrial and consumer markets (rubber processing, adhesives, resins and electroplating). In addition, Total has interests in the coal mining and power generation sectors. Total is helping to secure the future of energy through its commitment to developing renewable energies, such as wind and solar power, and alternative fuels.
 

A leader in each of the core businesses: 2006 key indicators

  • Upstream
    Exploration and production activities in 42 countries
    Production of oil and gas in 30 countries
    - Production: 2.36 million barrels of oil equivalent per day
    - Proved reserves: 11.1 billion barrels of oil equivalent as of December 31, 2006 (2)
    - Proved and probable reserves: 20.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent (3)

  • Downtream
     No. 1 Western European Refiner-Marketer (4) and No. 1 Marketer in Africa (5)
    One of the world's major traders of crude oil and refined products
    - Refining capacity: approximately 2.7 million barrels per day
    - Retail network: nearly 17,000 service stations
    - Sales of petroleum products: approximately 3.8 million barrels per day
    - Brands: TOTAL, Elf, Elan, AS 24

  • Chemicals: Total is one of the world’s largest integrated producers (6) and a European or global leader in each of our markets - Petrochemicals and Fertilizers, Specialties.


Shareholder base (7)
- Predominantly European (72%), held in particular by investors from France (34%), the United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany, with a strong number of Dutch, Swiss and Irish shareholders. Strong shareholder base in North America (26%). 
- Institutional shareholders (86%), employees (4%) and other individual shareholders (10%).
- Total S.A. is a French société anonyme (limited company) created in France in  March 1924, listed on Paris, London, Brussels and New York Exchanges
- Total is listed on the CAC 40, Dow Jones Stoxx 50, Dow Jones Euro Stoxx 50 and Dow Jones Global Titans 50 indices and the FTSE4Good, DJSI World, DJ STOXX SI, FTSE ISS CGI and ASPI Sustainable Development and Governance indices.


Senior Management 
Chief Executive Officer: Christophe de Margerie
 

 

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*Source: 2006 Registration Document
1. Based on market capitalization as of December 31, 2006
2. Based on year-end Brent price of 58.93 $/b
3. Limited to proved and probable reserves covered by E&P contracts on fields that have been drilled and for which technical studies have demonstrated economic development in a 40$/b Brent environment, including the portion of heavy oil in the Joslyn field developed by mining
4. Company sources, Oil and Gas Journal of December 18, 2006
5. Company sources, PFC Energy, December 2006
6. Company data, based on annual sales
7. Estimates at December 31, 2006

 

 

 

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