Steel baron Lakshmni Mittal and French oil major Total have signed an agreement with state-run HPCL for jointly setting up a six billion dollar refinery- cum petrochemical complex at Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.

Paddy Briggs, a former executive of Royal Dutch Shell has written an important article stimulated by current events in Burma.

Total Exploration and Production Company, plans to invest $7.5 billion in the upstream sector of the Nigeria oil and gas in the next five years, the company said.

Following a call for tenders, Total has been selected to build a petrochemical complex in Arzew, near Oran, Algeria, in partnership with Sonatrach.