On Friday, putting staff stopped vehicles carrying petroleum merchandise, together with gasoline, from leaving ExxonMobil Chemical France’s Port-Jerome-Gravenchon refinery in northern France.
About 200 staff are on strike, a member of the FNME-CGT union mentioned, and the motion will proceed till administration returns to talks over ExxonMobil Chemical France’s plans to shut a part of the refinery.
“Because of the closure of the terminals, some vehicles are unable to load cargo from the Gravenshon Refinery Terminal. Nonetheless, pipeline and container loadings aren’t affected,” an ExxonMobil spokesperson mentioned.
Final month, ExxonMobil Chemical France mentioned it might shut a steam crack this yr and halt chemical manufacturing in Gravenshon, including that the corporate has spent greater than 500 million euros ($534.40 million) misplaced since 2018 and are nonetheless not aggressive.
An ExxonMobil spokesman mentioned the strike shut down some chemical manufacturing models, together with a steam cracker.
“We remorse that this may occasionally have an effect on our capability to produce sure merchandise,” mentioned an ExxonMobil spokesperson, including that models that could be affected will probably be producing polyethylene, polypropylene and resins.
2024-06-22 12:46:39
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