(FILES) This photograph taken on October 5, 2022, shows a logo of Total Energies at a gas station in Genech, northern France. TotalEnergies will buy back a total of $8 billion worth of shares in 2024, the Group announced on October 2, 2024 in a press release ahead of its strategy presentation from New York, at a time when the taxation of share buybacks is being mooted in France as a way of bolstering government coffers. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP) (Photo by SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images)