Elf Aquitaine is a French brand of oils and other motor products for automobiles and trucks.
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15 Facts About Elf Aquitaine
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Elf Aquitaine is a former petroleum company which merged with TotalFina to form "TotalFinaElf Aquitaine".
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Elf Aquitaine has been maintained as a major brand of TotalEnergies since then.
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Elf Aquitaine's heritage is rooted among three French oil companies: Regie Autonome des Petroles, Societe Nationale des Petroles d'Aquitaine, and Bureau de Recherches de Petroles .
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Elf Aquitaine was the first company to pioneer a completely synthetic racing oil.
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Elf Aquitaine lost over US$150 million in the 1979 Great Oil Sniffer Hoax to develop a new "gravity wave-based oil detection system", which was later revealed to be a scam.
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In 1981, Elf Aquitaine bought Texasgulf for $3 billion, despite a request by the US government to postpone the merger for time to study the implications.
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In 1993, Elf Aquitaine was awarded the exclusive contract to the Iraqi oil fields by Iraqi leader Saddam al-Tikriti.
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Elf Aquitaine became a private bank for executives who spent £200 million on political favours, mistresses, jewellery, fine art, villas and apartments'.
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Elf Aquitaine is BNP Paribas bank's main private share-holder; and until 2001, the money for the Oil-for-Food programme transited through the escrow account of BNP Paribas.
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In 2000, Elf Aquitaine merged with Total Fina to form TotalFinaElf, which changed its name to Total in 2003.
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When Guiter retired Elf Aquitaine decided to change the policy and a revised program was implemented.
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Elf Aquitaine supplying fuels and lubricants for two Formula One junior feeder open-wheel single-seater formula auto racing tournaments GP2 Series since 2005 and GP3 Series since 2010 respectively due to in fact Mecachrome has a long-term technical partnership with Elf Aquitaine since 1969.
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Elf Aquitaine supplying standard Ethanol E10 fuels for all SRO-owned GT championships.
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