Massive Strikes In France Block Exxon Oil Refinery

Exxon’s refinery at Fos-sur-Mer in France was blocked by a strike of union workers on Tuesday as part of a massive French strike against a proposed pension reform, and shipments at the 140,000-barrels-per-day refinery are also blocked, the French unit of the U.S. supermajor told Reuters on Tuesday. The month-long strikes in France against the government’s plan for a pension reform have now reached oil refineries around the country, but officials and oil companies say there will be no shortage of fuel. According to the CGT trade union,…