Upon completing his MS and PhD at the University of California in 1990, Vincent Saubestre joined Total as an R&D engineer. Two years ago, Vincent was assigned to structure Total’s Research Center dedicated to oil sands, returning to Calgary after more than 40 years. The common thread underpinning Vincent’s career with Total has been to take on new challenges of increasing complexity in a variety of cultural environments around the world: research and engineering in France, offshore operations in Norway, production in Congo, and business development as Deputy Chief Representative in the U.A.E. In November 2007, Vincent moved to Calgary from Argentina, one of Total’s largest producing affiliate, where he held in succession the positions of HSE Manager and Senior VP Operations. A product of both the North American and European education systems, Vincent is a graduate of École Polytechnique (1982) and of the École Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (1984) in Paris. When not working on finding new ways to develop sustainable oil sands technology (his day job), Vincent captains and manages The Voyageurs, Total Canada’s hockey team, in the wee hours of the night. Total is a leading multinational energy company with 96,950 employees and operations in more than 130 countries. Together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, Total is the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas company in the world. Total’s oil and natural gas production, of 2.34 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2008, is underpinned by a widely diversified asset portfolio of proved reserves of 10.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent* and of proved and probable reserves of 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent**. The Group has exploration and production activities in more than 40 countries and produces oil and gas in 30 countries. Our E&P employees, who are constantly analyzing sedimentary basins around the world, demonstrate our ethical commitment, expertise and performance in every aspect of the business, from license acquisition to site restoration.