Pierre Barbé, currently Senior Vice President, Crude Oil Supply & Trading, is appointed Senior Vice President, Trading & Shipping, effective October 1, succeeding François Groh. He will also sit on the corporate Management Committee.

		A graduate of EDHEC Business School in Lille, Pierre Barbé, 48, joined Total in 1983. He worked as a trader in Paris, Tokyo and London before being appointed Assistant Vice President, Crude Oil Supply & Trading in London in 1992. He was subsequently named Vice President, Product Supply & Trading in London and held the same position in Geneva from 1995 to 2001. He was appointed Senior Vice President, Crude Oil Supply & Trading for Total in 2002.