Appointments

Total S.A.
11 January 2007


           APPOINTMENTS OF PHILIPPE BOISSEAU AND LADISLAS PASZKIEWICZ


Paris, January 11, 2007 - Philippe Boisseau, Senior Vice President, Exploration
& Production and President Middle East, has been appointed President of Total's
Gas & Power business.  He will succeed Yves-Louis Darricarrere, who has been
appointed President, Exploration & Production.

Ladislas Paszkiewicz, President of Total Austral, the Group's Argentinean
exploration and production subsidiary, will succeed Mr. Boisseau as President,
Middle East.

Both appointments are effective February, when Christophe de Margerie takes over
as Chief Executive Officer.

Philippe Boisseau, 45, graduated from France's Ecole Polytechnique and is an
engineer in the Corps des Mines.

He began his career in 1986, serving in a variety of French government
ministries before joining the staff of the Minister of Defense in 1993.

Mr. Boisseau came to Total in 1995 as Crude Oil Supply Manager, Total Refining
and Marketing, based in Denver, Colorado. 

He served as Products Trading Manager, Europe in the Refining Division from 
1997 to  1993, when  he became Strategic Planning Manager for Argentina in the
Exploration & Production   division.   He was appointed General Manager of Total
Austral, the Group's Argentine subsidiary, in 1999.

He has been President of Total Exploration & Production's operations in the
Middle East since March 2002 and a member of the Management Committee since
January 2005.

Ladislas Paszkiewicz, 44, graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in
Paris, earned a postgraduate diploma in finance in France and has an M.B.A. from
New York University (NYU).

Mr. Paszkiewicz joined Total in 1985 in the Finance Division, where he held a
number of tax and finance-related positions. From 1992 to 1993, he headed
Total's Investor Relations Department in New York.  From 1994 to 1998 he was
responsible for treasury operations for Total in Paris and then moved to the
Investor Relations Department, where he   was appointed Vice President in 2000.

He joined Total's Exploration & Production division in 2004 and was appointed
General Manager of Total Austral (subsidiary in Argentina) in 2005.

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