French Supermajor Total CEO Killed in Freak Runway Accident

Tragedy has struck Total, a French multinational integrated oil and gas company and one of the six "Supermajor" oil companies in the world. Total has a small presence in the Marcellus and Utica Shale. Late Monday night, Total's colorful CEO, Christophe de Margerie, was killed in a tragic airplane accident in Moscow, Russia. The plane that de Margerie was traveling in was taking off and a drunk snowplow driver cut across the path of the plane. The plane hit the snowplow and burst into flames. Everyone aboard (four people in all) were killed. The drunk idiot driving the snowplow wasn't hurt--go figure...

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