Total Indonesie gets new boss

French oil giant Total E&P has appointed Phillipe Armand as the new President and General Manager of Total E&P Indonesie, replacing Roland Festor as of February 1, 2006, Ananda Idris Total E&P Indonesie Corporate Communications Manager said in a release.

A graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique Engineering School and the INSEAD Business School in Paris, Armand was previously Senior VP for the Americas at the Total E&P corporate office. He has also held various senior management positions in the past with Elf Aquitaine in the Congolese, German, Angolan, British and Canadian affiliates.

Total E&P Indonesie, in a partnership with Tokyo based Inpex Corporation, is the operator of the Mahakam Contract Block in East Kalimantan. In 2005 The Mahakam Block produced an average of 2600 mmscfd of gas mainly from the Tunu and Peciko fields. Most of the gas is delivered to the Bontang LNG Plant as feedstock for exports of LNG to Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The gas is also sold to the fertilizer and petrochemical industries in Bontang while crude oil and condensate is lifted directly from the BSP oil terminal at the East Kalimantan coast.(alex)