News Releasee
Communiqué de Pressee

Exhibit 99.1

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Catherine ENCK
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Patricia MARIE
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Paul FLOREN
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Christine de CHAMPEAUX
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Bertille ARON
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Franklin BOITIER
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Philippe GATEAU
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Burkhard REUSS
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Lisa WYLER
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Appointments

Catherine Enck is appointed to be in charge of relations with nongovernmental organisations and civil society organisations

Isabelle Desmet is appointed to be in charge of media relations

Paris, June, 18 2007 - Catherine Enck who has been in charge of the media office at Total since 2000, joins the direction of Institutional Relations where she will be in charge of relations with nongovernmental organisations and civil society organisations.

Isabelle Desmet joins Total starting July 16, 2007 and will be in charge of the Group’s media relations. Ms. Desmet comes to the Group from EADS where she was the Corporate Communications Director, France.

After graduating with a degree in biochemistry and genetics, Catherine Enck began her career in public relations and information at the French Ministry of Industry in 1980. After managing external relations with Université Paris IX Dauphine from 1981, she joined Bull in 1985, where she headed the Media Relations Department until 1991. Then she was in charge of media relations at Paribas (1991) and Elf Aquitaine (1995) successively. She then spent two years as a project manager in Exploration & Production and Human Resources. Catherine Enck has headed Total’s Media Relations Department since 2000.

With degrees in law and literature, Isabelle Desmet began her career in 1985 as a press officer at the French National Assembly before moving to the Ministry of Industry, Postal Services, Telecommunications and Tourism in 1986. Beginning in 1988, she was in charge of media relations at Remy Cointreau, Seagram Universal, Club Méditerranée and BMW Rover France successively, before joining Smithkline Beecham France (Glaxo Smithkline France since 2001) in January 2000. She has been Head of Corporate Communications France for EADS since 2005.

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