How Total's CEO pounced on Anadarko's African energy assets

PARIS (Reuters) - It took Total's chief executive and a small group of advisers just days to line up the French energy major's biggest acquisition in almost two decades when it agreed to buy the African assets of U.S. firm Anadarko.Patrick Pouyanne pounced after Occidental Corp trumped Chevron's $33 billion (25.4 billion pounds) bid for Anadarko in April with an offer that includes raising financing by selling some of Anadarko's operations worth up to $15 billion.By keeping those in the know to..