By Forrest Crellin
PARIS (Reuters) - French refineries and depots have had deliveries blocked for more than two weeks, creating a backlog in storage and forcing companies to reduce production.
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals have also been blocked, halting imports at three sites.
The energy sector has been caught up in nationwide protests over government plans to raise France's retirement age by two years and other proposed changes.
Here are the companies and sites affected:
TOTALENERGIES
Strikes have stretched into a 16th day, blocking deliveries of oil products from four TotalEnergies (LON:TTEF) refineries and hitting output at two of them as storage fills.
Production has been stopped as of Tuesday morning at its 240,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Gonfreville refinery and production is reduced at its 119,000 bpd Feyzin oil refinery in southern France, the company said.
Its La Mede biorefinery, which can process 500,000 tonnes of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) per year, has been shut for maintenance since the week before the strike action started.
Refining has been stopped for several weeks at the 230,000 bpd Donges refinery due to technical reasons, which a company spokesperson previously attributed to a transformer.
EXXONMOBIL
Strikes have also affected ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) subsidiary Esso's 140,000 bpd Fos refinery at Fos-sur-Mer where deliveries have been disrupted since March 7, and production is adjusted.
The French government has renewed the order to requisition staff to ensure the functioning of the Fos-sur-Mer petrol depot on Thursday morning, an energy ministry spokesperson said on Thursday.
A requisition order has also been prepared for the Gonfreville site in northern France, but the formal notification has not been issued at this stage, the spokesperson added.
A strike resumed on March 18 at the 240,000 bpd Port Jerome-Gravenchon in northern France, where deliveries are also blocked and production is reduced according to the supply of crude oil from the Le Havre terminal.
ENGIE
Deliveries of LNG to Engie subsidiary Elengy's three terminals have been blocked since March 7. The strike was renewed on March 20 and will stretch until March 27, when another general assembly will vote on a possible extension.
FLUXYS
Force majeure was declared at the Dunkirk LNG terminal in northern France after disruptions resumed Thursday morning, which are supposed to last until early Friday, restricting delivery capacity to 70 gigawatt-hours per day (GWh/d).
A general meeting will be held with workers around noon Friday to decide if the strike will be renewed, a union source said.