Total SA CEO Calls U.S. Shale Oil Industry Dynamic OPEC and Russia will need to prolong their six-month deal to cut oil output if they plan to trim the global inventory glut that has kept a lid on prices, said Total SA Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne. “If they want really to have an impact on the market, which means to have the inventories going down because inventories are quite high, it will have to be extended beyond May,” Pouyanne said Tuesday in a Bloomberg television interview in New York. “I’m convinced that they will do it.” Total’s Pouyanne discusses his outlook for the oil industry, OPEC production cuts and U.S. and Russia relations The CEO of the French oil and gas company added that he plans to keep lowering its so-called break-even point — the oil price at which cash […]