Total SA
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Tour Total, the Paris headquarters
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| Société Anonyme | |
| Traded as |
Euronext: FP : TOT |
| Industry | Oil and gas, Solar energy, Renewables energies |
| Founded | 1924 |
| Founder | Ernest Mercier |
| Headquarters | Tour Total, Courbevoie, France |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Patrick Pouyanné (Chairman & CEO) |
| Products | Oil and gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass |
| Services | Fuel stations |
| Revenue |
 US$165.357 billion (2015) |
| Profit |
 US$5.087 billion (2015) |
| Total assets |
US$224.48 billion (2015) |
| Total equity |
US$92.49 billion (2015) |
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Number of employees
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96,019 (2015) |
| Website | www |
Total S.A. (French pronunciation: [tɔtal]; English /toʊˈtæl/ or /toʊˈtɑːl/) is a French multinational integrated oil and gas company and one of the seven "Supermajor" oil companies in the world. Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production to power generation, transportation, refining, petroleum product marketing, and international crude oil and product trading.
Total is also a large scale chemicals manufacturer. Total is also one of the leaders in the solar power industry with its American affiliate, SunPower.
Total has its head office in the Tour Total in La Défense district in Courbevoie, west of Paris. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 .
The company was founded after World War I, when then French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré rejected the idea of forming a partnership with Royal Dutch Shell in favour of creating an entirely French oil company. At Poincaré's behest, Col. Ernest Mercier with the support of ninety banks and companies founded Total on 28 March 1924, as the Compagnie française des pétroles (CFP), literally the "French Petroleum Company". Petroleum was seen as vital in the case of a new war with Germany.
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