By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept. 22 -- Total Refining & Marketing has named André Tricoire senior vice-president, refining. The company also named Thierry Pflimlin senior vice-president, Asia. Both appointments are effective Oct. 1.
Tricoire succeeds Jean-Claude Company, who is retiring. Prior to his current appointment, Tricoire served as chief executive of Total France. He joined Total Refining in 1986 at the Donges Refinery. Before that he held a variety of positions in the Regional Directorates for Industry, Research, and Environment; the French Ministry of Industry; and the Labor and Employment Minister's Office.
Pflimlin, who succeeds Gary Jones, who also is retiring, joined Total in 1984. Pflimlin served in various positions, including Asia Trading Manager in Singapore in 1986, chief executive officer of Total Zambia in 1990, and a member of the Strategy Department at Paris from 1993-95. That year, he was named vice-president, development, for China, a position he held until 1998, when he was appointed chief executive officer of Total Deutschland.