Eric Festa oversees TOTAL’s gas and LNG midstream assets worldwide.  This includes gas liquefaction facilities in Americas, joint ventures in India for regasification and marketing, as well as LNG terminals in Europe.  In his career at TOTAL, he held various overseas positions in upstream business development, operations, engineering, project development and general management.  He was recently Vice President M&A Upstream and Vice President Corporate Strategy.

Eric received a MEng. in Energy from French engineering school Centrale-Supelec and subsequently obtained a Master from the French Petroleum Institute (IFP School) in Paris.  He was a visiting scientist in the Energy Lab at MIT for two years before joining TOTAL.