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    Total to convert France's Grandpuits refinery into bioplastics plant

    • Last Update: 2022-08-25
    • Source: Internet
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    Total will revamp the Ile-de-France pipeline (PLIF) that transports crude oil to the Grandpuits refinery in north-central France due to potentially high maintenance costs, a source from the French General Trade Union (CGT) said.
    into a factory for the production of bioplastics


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    A French CGT source told S&P Global Platts Energy Consulting reporters who interviewed him on September 22; the French Central Committee for Society and Economy (CSEC) will hold a meeting on September 24, while Total will hold a meeting on the morning of the 22nd.
    Telling the CSEC asked for two points to be added to the agenda for that day's meeting, which confirmed the conversion of the Grandpuits refinery into an agro-plastics production plant


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    The Grandpuits refinery is expected to close in March 2021, the CGT source said


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    According to CGT sources, the so-called "Galaxie project" will lead to the end of refining activities at the Grandpuits refinery and possibly job losses


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    Total had said on July 6 that it was conducting an audit of the PLIF pipeline and that "the long-term future of the Grandpuits refinery depends on the pipeline's viability", adding that it was "not prepared to deal with flaws" sector cooperation


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    Total said on September 22 that the Grandpuits refinery renovation project will not lead to job losses


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    At the end of 2016, the Lamed refinery stopped crude processing and started producing biodiesel in 2019


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    The Grandpuits refinery shut down between March and June this year, partly due to sluggish demand amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but it closed between the end of February and July last year after a leak in a pipeline carrying crude from the port of Le Havre.
    Production was discontinued for 5 months during the month


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