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June 3, 2009                      
Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
By Hand Delivery
Attention: H. Roger Schwall
         
 
  Re:   Total S.A. Annual Report on Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2007
 
      Form 6-K Filed October 16, 2008
 
      Response Letter Dated April 17, 2009 (File No. 1-10888)
Dear Mr. Schwall:
Thank you for your letter dated May 12, 2009, setting forth the Staff’s comment relating to our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2007, our filing on Form 6-K made on October 16, 2008, and our response letter dated April 17, 2009. Set forth below is the response of Total S.A. (the “Company”) to the Staff’s comment.
To facilitate the Staff’s review, we have included in this letter the caption and comment from the Staff’s comment letter in bold text and have provided the Company’s response immediately following the comment.
Response Letter Dated April 17, 2009
1.   In future reports, when you generate significant funds for, or make significant purchases from, countries that have been classified by the U.S. Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism, please disclose that fact, noting the types of transactions and the dollar amounts.
R:   In preparing future reports, we will take your comment into account and, to the extent we enter into transactions of the type you describe that are material to our operations, we will make appropriate disclosures.
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Please direct any questions or comments regarding the enclosed material to the undersigned at (011)331.4744.4546 or Krystian Czerniecki of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP at (011)331.7304.1000.
         
  Very truly yours,
 		  
  /s/ Patrick de La Chevardière    
  Patrick de La Chevardière   
  Chief Financial Officer   
 
     
cc:
  Jennifer O’Brien
 
  Kimberly Calder
 
  Laura Nicholson
 
  Tim Levenberg
 
  (Securities and Exchange Commission)
 
    
 
  Thierry Reveau de Cyrières
 
  Dominique Bonnet
 
  (Total S.A.)
 
    
 
  Krystian Czerniecki
 
  (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP)

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