Total named Patrick Pouyanne, currently head of refining and chemicals, as its new chief executive while former CEO Thierry Desmarest was appointed chairman.
The driver of the snowplough that blocked the take-off of a private plane at a Moscow airport, said he drove onto the runway after losing his bearings.
Russian investigators accused senior airport officials of criminal negligence over a plane crash at a Moscow airport that killed the head of French oil giant Total.
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Total CEO Christophe de Margerie, who died in a plane accident at a Moscow airport, as a "true friend of our country."
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has met Russian President Vladimir Putin to demand "maximum cooperation" in the probe into doomed Malaysia flight MH17.
Dutch officials returned to the crash site of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine where the search for remains and belongings resumed despite sporadic exchanges of fire.
A military aircraft has crashed in Kazakhstan's Almaty Oblast killing both pilots. Causes are being investigated and the issue of air security in Kazakhstan is once again at the forefront.
The Australian authority leading the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 said that "hard spots" had been found on the Indian Ocean seabed.