Total E&P Qatar appoints new managing director

Guillaume Chalmin, pictured, has been appointed managing director at Total E&P Qatar and group representative with effect from January 1, 2014. He will report to Stephane Michel, who will be president Middle East, Exploration and Production Division at Total from January 1, 2014. Guillaume Chalmin has been the director of strategy in Total Exploration and Production (E&P), Paris since mid-2011. Previously he held the position of director, geosciences and reservoir in Total E&P Indonesia after being the country manager within the field optimisation department, Russia, Caspian Sea, Australia, and China in Total E&P Paris from 2006 to 2008.Guillaume entered the Total Group in 1995 as a reservoir engineer in Centre Scientifique et Technique – Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, before being a planning engineer in Total Oil and Gas Venezuela from 1997. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (1994) and Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs (1995).