Total’s CEO Christophe de Margerie Dies in Moscow Plane Crash
October 21st, 2014Via: BBC:
Christophe de Margerie, the chief executive of French oil company Total, has died in an air crash in Moscow.
His corporate jet collided with a snow plough and was then engulfed in flames. All four people on board were killed.
The driver of the snow plough was drunk, according to Russian investigators.
Mr de Margerie, 63, had been chief executive of Europe’s third largest oil company since 2007. He was highly regarded within the oil industry.
Research Credit: PW
Reminds me of the Italian public administrator Enrico Mattei and his plan to get away from big oil and find Italy its own supply in the 1950’s.
Another mystery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Mattei