Total in Chile

2005

Creation of Total Chile

Total has been active in Chilie since 1996, and in the marketing of petroleum products since 2005.

Since 1996

• 1996, the Cordillera de Gasandes Foundation is created, it is linked to the Gasandes pipeline, of which TOTAL owns 56.5%).

• 2000, Total acquires a stake in pipelines in Argentina, Chile and Brazil (TCPL).

• 2001, Total acquires the shares of Gasandes Chile with assets in the gas transmission networks.

 

Gas pipeline in the Andes Cordillera, 2001, © Philippe Schaff
Gas pipeline in the Andes Cordillera, 2001, © Philippe Schaff


• 2007, TOTAL obtains the block of Otway at the end of the year.

• 2013, TOTAL and SunPower launch new solar power plant developments. SunPower is both a panel supplier and builder of the Salvador power plant (70 MWp), in cooperation with TOTAL, a shareholder (20%) of the 70% funded project by US development bank OPIC.

Solar Power Plant Total Nuevas Energias Chile - Sunpower. El Salvador, in the region of Atacama, Chile, 2014, © Laurent Zylberman
Solar Power Plant Total Nuevas Energias Chile - Sunpower. El Salvador, in the region of Atacama, Chile, 2014, © Laurent Zylberman


• 2017, SunPower completes the construction of the El Pelicano solar farm (111 MWp).

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