The strike at the TotalEnergies refinery in Gonfreville-l'Orcher, in Normandy, was lifted on Wednesday, the site's CGT secretary general, Alexis Antonioli, told AFP, confirming information from the daily "
Paris-Normandie
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The management of TotalEnergies also confirmed that “
the strike is over
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On the site of the Gonfreville refinery, the strike started on September 27th.
It was the last refinery still affected by the social movement for wages, which affected many oil sites at the height of the mobilization.
Only one TotalEnergies site remains on strike today: it is the fuel depot in Feyzin, in the Rhône.
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France has six conventional refining platforms: three are managed by TotalEnergies in Gonfreville-l'Orcher (Seine-Maritime), Donges (Loire-Atlantique) and Feyzin (Rhône), two by Esso in Port Jérôme Gravenchon (Seine-Maritime) and Fos-sur-Mer (Bouches-du-Rhône), and one by Petroineos in Lavéra (Bouches-du-Rhône).
Added to this panorama are two TotalEnergies biorefineries, in Grandpuits and La Mède, as well as a platform in Martinique, run by the Société anonyme de la raffinerie des Antilles (Sara).
But Grandpuits has been closed since 2020, to be transformed into a biorefinery by the end of 2024.
Gonfreville is the largest refinery in France, representing a crude oil processing capacity of 1.5 million tonnes, ahead of Port-Jérôme, with 12 million tonnes, and Donges, with 11 million tonnes, according to Ufip.