Executive Appointment

Total S.A.
28 June 2004

                    Total Appoints Jean-Marc Jaubert
                Senior Vice President, Industrial Safety


Paris, June 28, 2004 - Effective August 2, 2004, Jean-Marc Jaubert, Atofina's
vice President, Industrial Safety, is appointed Senior Vice President,
Industrial Safety at Total.  He will also be a member of the Group's Management
Committee.

Mr. Jaubert succeeds Pierre Guyonnet, who has been appointed Chairman of ATEE
(the French Association for Energy Efficiency).

Jean-Marc Jaubert
Senior Vice President, Industrial Safety 
Member of the Management Committee

Jean-Marc Jaubert, 47, Is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole
des Mines In Paris. He joined Elf in 1981 as an economic engineer in the
refining business, and was later appointed process engineer at the Grandpuit
refinery. In 1985, he moved to the petrochemicals business as operations manager
of the high-pressure polyethylene unit at the Gonfreville plant. Beginning in
1989, he held a variety of marketing positions in Elf Atochem's Petrochemicals
Division, before heading it from 1998. He was subsequently appointed Vice
President, Industrial Petrochemicals at Atofina, based in Brussels. Since March
2002, he has been Vice President, Industrial Safety of the Chemicals business.

Pierre Guyonnet 
Chairman, ATEE (the French Association for Energy Efficiency) 

An engineering graduate of the Institut National des Sciences Appliquees (INSA)
and the Ecole Nationale Superieure du Petrole et des Moteurs (ENSPM), Pierre
Guyonnet joined Total in 1969. He spent much of his career developing oil
projects outside France. Beginning in 1982, he was responsible for offshore
project management in the North Sea and Asia.  In 1996, he joined the
Exploration & Production business' senior management, before becoming a member
of Total's senior management in 2000 as Director of the Atlantic Coast Fund. In
early 2002, he was appointed Senior Vice President, Industrial Safety and became
a member of the Management Board.

Total is the fourth largest oil and gas company in the world with operations in
more than 130 countries. Total's activities cover the whole energy chain of the
petroleum industry: exploration, oil and gas production, refining and marketing,
trading and power generation. The Group is also a major player in chemicals
through its chemicals branch, Atofina. Total has more than 110,000 employees
worldwide. More information can be found on the company's website: www.total.com



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