French company Total to open US$3 billion plant in Egypt

• Wednesday, 7th December 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

French energy company Total is on the verge of signing a contract with the Egyptian Petrochemicals Holding Company to establish a US$3 billion plant for the production of olefins by steam cracking of natural gas, said...

Total reveals major Caspian gas find

• Sunday, 11th September 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

French supermajor Total has announced a “major natural non-associated gas find in the Absheron block of the Azeri Caspian Sea. In a statement the company revealed that initial test results from the Absheron-X2 w...

Total wins Tanzania oil and gas exploration bid

• Tuesday, 16th August 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Tanzania has awarded oil and gas exploration rights for the northern side of Lake Tanganyika to a subsidiary of French energy company Total SA, its state-run petroleum agency said. The Tanzania Petroleum Development C...

Total makes third oil discovery in deep waters offshore Angola

• Monday, 9th May 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Total announces that its subsidiary, TEPA (Block 17/06) Limited, and Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol E.P.), have discovered hydrocarbons in the northeastern area of the deep offshore block 17/06...

Total CEO: gas production in Yemen almost normal

• Tuesday, 29th March 2011
• by Egypt Oil & Gas

Total continues to produce liquefied natural gas in Yemen at close to normal levels, according to Chief Executive Christophe de Margerie. Like a number of other countries in the region, Yemen is in political crisis wi...