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In 2000 Elf Aquitaine merged with Total Fina to form TotalFinaElf, which changed its name to Total in 2003.
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Revealed: the new scramble for Africa
Author: David Leigh & David Pallister, Guardian [UK]
A new "scramble for Africa" is taking place among the world's big powers, who are tapping into the continent for its oil and diamonds...Simon Taylor, director of Global Witness...said: "Western companies and banks have colluded in stripping Africa's...
- Related companies: British Gas (part of Centrica) Elf Aquitaine (now part of Total) HSBC Standard Chartered Total
Resource Control: Delta Charts a New Agenda for N-Delta [Nigeria]
Author: Emma Amaize, Vanguard [Nigeria]
[Nigeria]:...the multinationals on one side and the oil communities on the other, told each other the naked truths; ranging from the divide and rule tactics of the multinationals and the fraudulent nature of some leaders of the oil communities who...
- Related companies: Chevron Elf Aquitaine (now part of Total) ExxonMobil Shell Total
New report by Global Witness looks at secrecy surrounding revenues paid to govts. by oil & mining companies, & how this contributes to poverty
[PDF] full report: "Time For Transparency - Coming clean on oil, mining and gas revenues"
Author: Global Witness
[refers to ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, Elf (now Total), Total, Likouala S.A., Agip (part of ENI), BP, Occidental Petroleum, Shell, Norsk Hydro, ConocoPhillips, SNPC, Mercator, Riggs Bank]
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- Related companies: AGIP (part of Eni) BP Chevron ConocoPhillips Elf Aquitaine (now part of Total) Eni ExxonMobil Norsk Hydro Occidental Petroleum Shell Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo (SNPC) Total
Author: Global Witness
Le verdict de culpabilité des trois plus grands cadres supérieurs de l’ancienne compagnie nationalisée Elf est un coup de poing pour la corruption dans le domaine pétrolier mondial. Bien que largement accueilli, le verdict n’effacera pas le douloureux...
Conviction of 3 former Elf executives - Global Witness says Elf system would not have existed if companies had to publish their payments to govts.
Elf verdict [in French court] jails the guilty, but their bitter legacy remains
Author: Global Witness
The conviction for embezzlement of three senior executives of the former French state oil company, Elf, is a blow against corruption in the global oil industry..."If oil companies were required to publish all their payments to governments, and...
De Villepin and France must deliver on oil transparency in Congo
Author: Global Witness
Making heavily-indebted Congo’s management of oil revenues more transparent is the key to the country’s development, as the IMF and World Bank have recognised. France has a particular responsibility to help: former state oil company Elf’s secret system...
- Related stories: Global Witness: La France doit agir pour assurer la transparence des revenus du pétrole au Congo
- Related companies: Elf Aquitaine (now part of Total)
Author: Global Witness
Selon le FMI et la Banque Mondiale, une gestion plus transparente des revenus pétroliers est la clé du développement durable du Congo, un des pays du monde le plus endettés. La France a une responsabilité particulière envers le Congo. L’Affaire Elf...
- Related stories: Global Witness: La France doit agir pour assurer la transparence des revenus du pétrole au Congo
- Related companies: Elf Aquitaine (now part of Total)