VOL.XXXVI

NO.16

18-JANUARY-1993

IRAQ

Total and Elf on Exploration in Iraq

Mr. Christophe de Margerie, Executive Vice President of Total Trading andMiddle East, and a member of the Group Management Committee, as well as new headof the company's Middle East division, told the Paris-daily L'Tribune Desfosseson 11 January that Total is negotiating a "large deal" with Iraq whichhe expects to return to the international scene during the current year. He saidthat "we should see in 1993 the return of Iran...