A native of Gabon who was appointed to the position on September 8, Henri-Max Ndong Nzue served as secretary general and director of the Americas for “Total Marketing and Services,” after serving as managing director of Total Gabon from 2015 to 2019.
Henri-Max Ndong Nzue is the very first African to head Total Energies’ exploration and production branch in sub-Saharan Africa. He also becomes the de facto Chairman of the Board of Directors of all Total Energies’ African subsidiaries. He is also one of the highest ranking African executives within the French oil group.
The Exploration-Production Division leads TotalEnergies’ oil and gas exploration, development and production operations. Today, TotalEnergies’ production in sub-Saharan Africa is driven by the “four sisters” of the Gulf of Guinea: Angola, Nigeria, Congo and Gabon. The Group has 10 floating production and storage units in operation, with an eleventh on its way to Kaombo, Angola. Africa accounts for about 25% of Total’s production. In addition to its exploration positions in the mature subsidiaries of the Gulf of Guinea, TotalEnergies is positioned in other key exploration hubs in sub-Saharan Africa: West Africa, with interests in several exploration blocks in Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire; and around the southern tip of the continent with Namibia and South Africa.
Henri Max Ndong Nzue, 56 years old, holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (Class of 1985). He then spent a year of specialization at the National School of Statistics and Economic Administration in Paris, one of the 204 French engineering schools accredited to deliver an engineering degree.
Henri Max Ndong Nzue began his career at Crédit Commercial de France in quantitative analysis, before being recruited by Elf Aquitaine in 1991 and sent to the Netherlands as a management controller. Two years later he was assigned to Gabon as Budget Engineer before joining the Exploration-Production Finance Department in Paris in 1996.
Henri-Max Ndong Nzue has been with the Total Group for several years and has worked for the group in Norway, Yemen, France and Holland. It was in 2015 that he was appointed CEO of Total Gabon, the first Gabonese to hold this position in the country.
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