The refinery had been shut down for a week and a half.
By Le Figaro with AFP
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The Esso-ExxonMobil oil group announced on Tuesday the restart of production at its Port-Jérôme-Gravenchon refinery, which had been shut down on March 25 for lack of crude oil to be refined due to the strike at the oil terminal. of Le Havre against the pension reform. “The replenishment of our crude oil stocks and the confirmation of the suspension of movement at the Le Havre oil terminal provide sufficient visibility to confirm the restart operations which were launched this afternoon.“, indicated the direction of the group.
The restart of this refinery which alone represents 20% of the refining capacity in France, launchedaccording to an ordered sequencing of units“, will require “several days before restoring normal production“, underlined the direction. The strike was extended there until Thursday, the national day of mobilization against the pension reform, but the strikers agreed last week to sign a protocol with the management, which provides for the release of 43 million liters of fuel from the bins. filled to the brim, in order to supply the service stations of Île-de-France.
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In the same vein, the neighboring refinery of the TotalEnergies group, in Gonfreville-L’Orcher, the largest in France, has been the subject of employee requisitions by the government and has been shipping fuel to the Island since Monday morning. -of France. Most departments in the Paris region are seeing a third of their service stations affected by shortages of super unleaded. This refinery is however the only one whose production is still stopped due to the strike, other refineries being affected by technical problems or maintenance operations.