French oil giant Total on Wednesday, October 22 named new bosses to lead one of the world’s biggest energy companies after its chief executive was killed in Moscow when his private jet hit a snowplough on takeoff. Executives decided at an emergency meeting to bring back its former Chairman and CEO Thierry Desmarest as the group’s Chairman while naming Philippe Pouyanne as its new chief executive. Pouyanne is the head of the refining and chemicals division. Meanwhile in Moscow, French investigators joined a local Russian team to probe Monday’s crash that killed former Total CEO Christophe de Margery.
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