Une des plus grandes raffineries de France à l'arrêt pour des fuites, une autre victime d'un incendie, une demande de produits pétroliers en baisse: à l'heure de la transition écologique, le climat n'est pas au beau fixe pour les employés des plateformes pétrolières françaises.
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00:00 One of the largest refineries in France is shut down for leaks, another victim of a fire, a decrease in oil demand during the ecological transition, the climate is not in the right place for the employees of French oil platforms.
00:13 In February, the Donge refinery, Loire-Atlantique, the second in France, was shut down for corrosion and leak problems, before a complete restart is expected for early April.
00:24 The tools are paying for the lack of sufficient maintenance for years and years, says Eric Scellini, CGT coordinator at Total Energies.
00:33 A statement by the group's management that refutes the group's direction, "We are not making a pass on security or necessary maintenance", said the FPJ Jean-Marc Durand, director of refining and petrochemicals Europe.
00:45 The half-dozen conventional refineries that remain in France represent between 5,000 and 10,000 direct jobs, according to Ufip, the oil company union.
00:54 Total Energies is not the only one to have experienced recent incidents, the Sohoxone mobile refinery in Port-Jérôme, near Havre, was the victim of a fire on March 11 in a distillation unit that caused five minor injuries.
01:06 An incident that the CGT of the group does not relate to a maintenance problem.
01:11 On the other hand, the staff members are complaining about an industrial disinvestment, says Germina Lancelin, CGT delegate at the refinery.
01:19 Competitiveness
01:21 The sector's representatives are accusing the entire aging process, some units date back a few decades, but every five to six years, we have intervened to solve the problems, so we cannot say that the park is aging, assures the AFP the president of Ufip, Olivier Gantois.
01:36 "What is certain is that it has been 50 years since we have built a refinery in France, and we will not build a new one," he adds.