Total calls off plan to buy Occidental Petroleum's Ghana assets

PARIS (Reuters) - Total has called off a plan to acquire Occidental Petroleum's assets in Ghana, which was conditional on the completion of the acquisition of Occidental's other assets in Algeria, the French energy company said on Monday.The deal was part of an $8.8 billion (7.2 billion pounds) agreement reached between Total and Occidental to over Anadarko's assets in Mozambique, Ghana, Algeria, and South Africa. Occidental in 2019 decided to unload those assets as part of a $38 billion deal..