Total makes appointment to management committee

Jan. 26, 2009
Total Exploration & Production appointed Marc Blaizot to the corporate management committee.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Jan. 26 -- Total Exploration & Production appointed Marc Blaizot to the corporate management committee. He was appointed senior vice-president, geosciences in December 2008.

He began his career as a geologist with Elf in 1979, holding a variety of positions focusing on basin evaluation, prospect generation, and appraisal of discoveries in Europe.

Blaizot specialized in the management of the exploration portfolio and in the selection of new opportunities worldwide while he was responsible for the management and arbitrage of the exploration portfolio during 2001-05 and as head of the new business department in 2005-08.