Financial Times | Total expands in North Sea with purchase of Maersk Oil Sentinel & Enterprise LONDON -- French oil company Total agreed Monday to buy the oil & gas division of Danish conglomerate AP Moller-Maersk for $7.45 billion, in a deal that will see it become the No. 2 operator in the North Sea. Total said its purchase of Maersk Oil will ... Total to buy $7.45bn of oil assets from Maersk Oil major Total's shares rise as analysts welcome Maersk Oil deal Maersk agrees to sell oil unit to Total in $7.45 bln deal |