Transaction in Own Shares

Total S.A.
17 April 2007


Please, be advised that in connection with TOTAL's share repurchase program, 
TOTAL S.A. reacquired 4,900,000 of its ordinary shares, nominal value 2.50 euros 
per share, in March 2007, through trades executed at the Paris Stock Exchange.

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