TOT acquires Maersk Oil in $7.5B deal: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/total-buy-maersk-oil-gas-065629211.html Total will pay Maersk with $4.95 billion of its own shares and assume $2.5 billion of the Copenhagen-based company’s debt, according to a statement on Monday. The full transaction value of $7.45 billion is above what some analysts were expecting and Maersk shares jumped as much as 5.7 percent following the announcement. TOT is reportedly also assuming Maersk’s $3B decommissioning liability pertaining to North Sea fields.