EX-7 5 totalpoa.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on ___________ __, 2002


EXHIBIT 7

POWER OF ATTORNEY


KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Christophe de Margerie, Patrick de La Chevardière and Jérôme Schmitt, acting jointly or any of them acting individually, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to act, without any other, for him or her and in his or her name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign a Registration Statement on Form F-6 (including under any other appropriate Form) of TOTAL S.A., a French société anonyme, and any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto, relating to the registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of depositary shares evidenced by American depositary receipts of TOTAL S.A., and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or any state regulatory authority, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in connection with the foregoing, as fully as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.  This power of attorney may be executed in counterparts.

 





IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands as of the 12th day of January, 2011.




/s/ Christophe de Margerie

/s/ Patrick de La Chevardière

Christophe de Margerie

Patrick de La Chevardière

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)

  

/s/ Dominique Bonnet

 _____________________________

Dominique Bonnet

Patrick Artus

Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Financial Officer)

Director

  

/s/ Patricia Barbizet

 ____________________________

Patricia Barbizet

Daniel Bouton

Director

Director

  

/s/ Gunnar Brock

/s/ Claude Clément

Gunnar Brock

Claude Clément

Director

Director

  

/s/ Bertrand Collomb

/s/ Paul Desmarais Jr.

Bertrand Collomb

Paul Desmarais Jr.

Director

Director

  

/s/ Thierry Desmarest

/s/ Bertrand Jacquillat

Thierry Desmarest

Bertrand Jacquillat

Director

Director

  

/s/ Anne Lauvergeon

 ____________________________

Anne Lauvergeon

Lord Levene of Portsoken

Director

Director

  

/s/ Claude Mandil

/s/ Michel Pébereau

Claude Mandil

Michel Pébereau

Director

Director

  
  

/s/ Thierry de Rudder

/s/ Robert Hammond

Thierry de Rudder

Robert Hammond

Director

Authorized Representative in the United States