TOTAL GROUP OVERVIEW

A global multi-energy provider

• World’s fourth-largest publicly-traded integrated 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 activities in 42 countries
• Producer in 30 countries
• Approximately 570,000 French individual shareholders
• 2006 sales: €153.8 billion

 

Total’s operations span all the 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 is also a world-class chemicals producer (Base Chemicals: Petrochemicals and Fertilizers) and Specialties (rubber processing, resins, adhesives and electroplating), and has interests in the coal mining and power generation sectors. In addition, Total is helping to secure the future of energy through its commitment to developing renewable energies, such as wind, solar and photovoltaic 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 Dec.31, 2006 (2)
  -  Proved and probable reserves: 20.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent (3)

• Downstream:
  No. 1 Western European Refiner-Marketer (4), 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.

 

Our responsibilities as a manufacturer

As an international energy provider and chemicals producer, Total is directly concerned by major global economic, human resources and environmental issues. Total’s main challenges as a manufacturer are sustainably developing energy supply, ensuring the safety of operations and reducing their environmental footprint, helping to combat climate change, respecting and promoting human rights, respecting neighboring communities, and contributing to the development of host countries.

 

Shareholder Base (7)

• Predominately European (72%), held particularly by investors in 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
Chairman of the Board of Directors: Thierry Desmarest

 

Head Office
2, place de la Coupole
La Défense 6
92400 Courbevoie
France
Tel.: +33 (0)1 47 44 45 46
Web site: www.total.com

 

Contact us
Media Relations: Tel.: +33 (0)1 47 44 63 74 - Fax: +33 (0)1 47 44 68 21
Investor Relations:
- Individual shareholders:
- France: 0 800 039 039 (toll-free from a landline in France)
- Outside France, dial +33 1 47 44 24 0 - Fax: +33 1 47 44 20 14
- Analysts and institutional investors: +33 (0)1 47 44 58 53

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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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Document validated by Financial Communication: April 16,2007

 

Fast Fact:

• A global multi-energy provider