Oil chiefs to suppliers: Your prices are too high
A rising cost-control cry among oil executives has plenty of basis in the economics of the oil patch, but also may be an open message to suppliers that if prices don’t come down, their business will.
View ArticleTotal announces plans to sell $10 billion in assets by 2017
French energy giant Total SA will sell $10 billion of assets from 2015 to 2017, the company announced at an event for analysts Monday, as part of a broader strategy designed to promote financial...
View ArticleTotal CEO dies in plane crash
Christophe de Margerie and three others died in Moscow when the CEO's private jet collided with a snowplow who's driver was drunk, Russian investigators said.
View ArticleDeath of Total CEO: Reactions from oil industry, French leaders
France’s politicians and oil-industry leaders offered their condolences after the death of Christophe de Margerie, 63, chief executive officer of Total SA, the nation’s largest oil company.
View ArticleReactions to Total CEO death pour in from oil industry, world leaders
Total SA CEO Christophe de Margerie died in a plane crash in Moscow on Tuesday when his private plane struck a snow plow, whose driver Russian investigators say as drunk at the time of the accident.
View ArticleTotal CEO criticized Russia sanctions hours before crash
Christophe de Margerie’s last act as chief executive officer of Total SA (FP) left no room for doubt about his feelings toward Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
View ArticleTotal board could vote for new CEO as soon as Wednesday
Total SA moved its emergency board meeting from Tuesday to Wednesday, when it will likely choose a successor to Christophe de Margerie, who died in a plane crash Tuesday night.
View ArticleNew Total CEO will contend with slump in production, oil
Pouyanne will have to see through a round of cost cuts as lower oil prices and weak returns from refining eat into profit at France’s largest company by sales.
View ArticleTotal acts swiftly to replace CEO killed in crash
Barely 36 hours after de Margerie's death, Total's board chose its new leader at a board meeting Wednesday.
View ArticleTotal’s Pouyanne sticks to cost-cutting as profit falls
Patrick Pouyanne, who was named to succeed de Margerie last week, plans to “hit the road” to visit contacts in the oil industry and in several resource-rich countries
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