Abstract
Total S.A. is a French oil company, founded in 1924, and one of the six "Supermajor oil companies in the world". The term supermajor refers to the six largest energy companies, International Oil Company (IOC): British Petroleum (UK), Chevron Corporation (USA), ConocoPhillips (USA), ExxonMobil (USA), Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands/UK) and Total (France).
The oil business of Total covers the entire oil chain, from crude oil exploration and production to transportation, oil product marketing, crude oil and product trading and finally distribution.
In this essay, we will try to understand the three parts of Total's logistics: the logistics of crude oil procurement, the logistics of production and the logistics of oil products distribution.
The group has at its disposal an integrated refining tool among the most competitive and well adapted ones to the new European standards on the specifications of oil products.
Crude oil, liquefied natural gas, chemicals or oil products are transported everyday from the producer to the consumer. To do so, Total uses more than 21,000 kilometres of pipelines in the five continents and almost 200 ports and terminals worldwide.
