Sochi - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, Nov. 28, confirmed that the name of Christophe de Marjerie, chief executive of French oil company Total killed in an air crash in Moscow last month, would be given to one of Russia's first methane tankers.
“We have not only awarded him with an order, conferring a state honor on him. There are various proposals for perpetuating his name, giving it to large sea ships that will be used in the energy industry here,” Putin said at a meeting in Sochi with Total’s new chief executive, Patrick Pouyanne.
De Marjerie’s death “is a great loss,” Putin said. De Marjerie was “a major public figure,” an “entrepreneur with a capital E,” and “a great friend of Russia.”
Pouyanne said he was aware of an initiative, put forward by Putin and NOVATEK chief executive Leonid Mikhelson, to give de Marjerie’s name to one of Russia’s first few methane carrier ships.
Pouyanne thanked Putin on behalf of de Marjerie’s wife for the sympathy shown by the Russian leader in connection with her husband’s death.
