Total is currently the world's fourth largest oil and gas company with operations in more than 120 countries and employs more than 120,000 people. The turnover in 2002 was 102.5 billion euros and the total assets were 85 billion euros. The top six shareholders of the company were Paris BNP Paribas (0.2%), France AREVA (0.8%), Societe Generale (0.7%), Brussels Lambert Group (3.4%), Belgian National Securities (1.2%), the rest Part of the shares for the internal staff, the Group affiliated enterprises and the public shares. The top institutions of the company are executive committees, under the three administrative departments of the Strategic and Risk Assessment Department, the Finance Department and the Ministry of Personnel, and upstream (exploration and development of crude oil and natural gas, natural gas and electricity), downstream (refining and refined oil sales, Crude oil and all kinds of refined oil international trade), chemical three production sectors.