Start-up of a New Polypropylene Production Line...

TOTAL S.A.
                  

Total announces the start-up of a new polypropylene production line at its
Daesan plant in South Korea, in which it owns a 50% interest in partnership with
Samsung.

Part of the important expansion project of the site launched in October 2005,
the new unit, with a capacity of 300,000 tons per year, will bring the total
polypropylene capacity of the plant to 554,000 tons per year. A major expansion
of the naphtha cracker has also been recently completed with the revamping of
the associated downstream units. Completed within budget and schedule and with
an excellent safety record, the expansion works have boosted the ethylene
capacity of the cracker from 600,000 tons per year to 820,000 tons per year.

In parallel, one styrene monomer unit has been expanded from 380,000 tons to
600,000 tons per year which included the conversion of the ethylbenzene section
from gas to liquid phase, and incorporating energy-efficient multi-effect
distillation in the purification section. The styrene production in the Daesan
facility is currently 850,000 tons per year.

The expansion works on the naphtha cracker and styrene unit were completed at
the end of May, and were brought on-line as planned in early June.

The Samsung Total Petrochemicals joint-venture was created in April 2003, both
partners, Total and Samsung, retaining a stake of 50%. The Daesan facility
expansion project will allow Total to consolidate its commercial position in the
Asian countries, in particular on the Chinese markets.

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