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Tag: Thierry Desmarest

  • Thursday, October 23rd 2014 - 06:15 UTC

    Total makes two appointments to replace de Margerie killed in a plane crash

    Pouyanne, 51, had a key role in merging Total's loss-making “downstream” refining and petrochemical units in recent years,

    French oil major Total appointed on Wednesday refining head Patrick Pouyanne as chief executive and former CEO Thierry Desmarest as non-executive chairman. The nominations at the head of the world's fourth-largest integrated oil company came less than 48 hours after the brutal death of Chairman and CEO Christophe de Margerie in a plane crash in Moscow.