Total is not looking at investing in the US shale oil industry. STAVANGER, Norway, Aug 27 (Reuters) – French energy group Total is not looking at investing in the U.S. shale oil industry, the company’s chief executive said on Monday. Patrick Pouyanne made the comment when asked whether peer BP’s $10.5 billion acquisition of U.S. shale assets from BHP Billiton had made the sector more attractive. “It’s first quite expensive, second we don’t have the human resources. BP had the human resources, BP had already a position, so I can understand their move but it’s not my case,” Pouyanne said on the sidelines of an oil conference. BP’s acquisition of about 500,000 producing acres marked a turning point for the group since the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, for which the company is still paying off more than $65 billion in penalties and clean-up […]