5. TOTAL SA

Company Snapshot
TOTAL S.A., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated oil and gas company worldwide.

The company operates in three segments: Upstream, Downstream, and Chemicals.

The Upstream segment engages in exploration and production activities, as well as natural gas transportation and storage, liquefied natural gas and power, trading of liquefied petroleum gas, and coal operations.

As of December 31, 2005, it had proved crude oil and natural gas reserves of 11,106 Mboe.

The Downstream segment engages in refining, marketing, trading, and shipping petroleum products.

It offers fuel oils and heating oils, motor gasoline, avgas and jet fuel, kerosene and diesel fuel, petrochemical feedstock, special fluids, butane and propane, greases, bitumens, and liquefied petroleum gas.

The segment holds interests in 27 refineries, as well as distributes its petroleum products through a network of 16,976 retail stations.

The Chemicals segment offers petrochemicals, fertilizers, specialties, elastomer processing, vinyl products, industrial chemicals, and performance products.

Its products are used in automobile, transportation, packaging, construction, sports and leisure, health and beauty care, water treatment, paper, electronics, and agriculture industries.

The company was incorporated in 1924 and is based in Courbevoie, France.

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