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France’s Total is one of the world’s top seven oil and oil products companies and is involved in every aspect of the oil chain from extraction to sales. In the early 2000s, it merged with Elf Aquitaine and was called TotalFinaElf before changing its name back to Total.

UNITED KINGDOM IRAN 08/01/2014

Mrs Khashoggi opens Iranian doors 

Western companies are currently on the lookout for advisors who can help introduce them to the newly opening Iranian marketplace. Adnan Khashoggi's wife Shahpari Khashoggi is proving a popular choice. [...]

FRANCE 18/12/2013

Total's corporate monitor moves in 

As Intelligence Online anticipated (IOL 700), Jean-François Théodore, the former [...]

Insiders FRANCE MIDDLE EAST 05/12/2013

Omar Zeidan, the doyen of Franco-Arabian deal-makers 

Omar Zeidan is one of the best-connected among the established agents of French industry in the Arab world. He is [...]

FRANCE UNITED STATES 20/11/2013

US has eye on Total 

After nearly a year of laborious horse-trading, the future corporate monitor of the French oil group Total should be named [...]

FRANCE 20/11/2013

Bodyguard for Naouri 

The chief executive of the Casino retail chain, Jean-Charles Naouri [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 20/11/2013

Shrinking profits for Aegis 

Despite a 39% hike in its revenues, private security group Aegis’s profits slumped in 2012. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 20/11/2013

Control Risks 

Control Risks, the British private security company, is one of [...]

FRANCE 06/11/2013

DGSE gets more money for gear 

A close examination of DGSE's budget for next year indicates the service has been handed substantial new resources to develop its electronic capabilities. [...]

FRANCE 23/10/2013

Diplomacy and Corruption 

Following the conviction of several French groups for corruption in [...]

TADJIKISTAN FRANCE 23/10/2013

New El Dorado for top French groups 

Taking their cue from the Total oil group that acquired [...]

FRANCE 09/10/2013

Tug of war between Total and DGSE 

The small world of French intelligence has been roiled by the case for over a month. Working for the Total [...]

FRANCE 28/08/2013

Investors mull stake in Risk & Co 

Bruno Delamotte’s firm may be a step closer to having new shareholders by the end of this year. [...]

Insiders ASIA EUROPE 18/07/2013

Dick Evans, the Kazakhstan connections of an arms industry high-flier 

After having served as the high profile chairman and chief executive of BAE Systems from 1998 to 2004, Richard "Dick" Evans has been putting his talents to use in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan. President Nursultan Nazarbayev recruited him in October 2006 to run the country's sovereign fund, Samruk. [...]

Spotlight FRANCE QATAR 26/06/2013

Soulié, deal broker for French groups 

Qatar, which President François Hollande visited on June 22-23, is not only Paris' ally in the Middle East and a principal foreign investor in France, it is also a key country for French groups such as Thales and Total. [...]

FRANCE 26/06/2013

Internal intelligence hiring 

The fledgling Direction Generale de la Securite Interieure (DGSI) is to benefit from a 13% increase in personnel over the [...]

FRANCE RUSSIA 26/06/2013

Total regains control in Russian dispute 

In a significant victory for Total, Austrian Andreas Reiner has [...]

FRANCE 26/06/2013

Total under new security management 

Thierry Bourgeois is poised to take over from Jerome Ferrier [...]

FRANCE 26/06/2013

EDF devises physical protection against Stuxnet 

Seclab and the R&D department of EDF have developed a physical filter to remedy the weaknesses of the USB protocol. [...]

UNITED STATES 12/06/2013

Ex-CIA chief Petraeus heads KKR strategic unit 

Like Carlyle in the 1990s, the private equity giant KKR has been recruiting former CIA officers. David Petraeus was recently put in charge of its research centre. [...]

FRANCE 29/05/2013

Maori protects Total's Margerie 

A clutch of companies have cornered the market in the close protection of French stock market-listed group CEOs. [...]