據石化新聞2020年9月22日巴黎報道，來自法國總工會（CGT）的一名消息人士稱，由于把原油輸送到位于法國中北部的Grandpuits煉油廠的法蘭西島管道(PLIF)的維修費用可能很高，道達爾公司將把這個煉油廠改造成一家生產生物塑料的工廠。

法國CGT的一名消息人士9月22日對采訪他的標普全球普氏能源咨詢記者說；法國社會與經濟中央委員會（CSEC）9月24日將召開一次會議，而道達爾公司22日早上告訴CSEC要求在當天會議議事日程上增加兩點，其中確認把Grandpuits煉油廠改造成一個農業-塑料生產廠。

這名CGT消息人士稱，Grandpuits煉油廠預計將在2021年3月關閉。

根據CGT消息人士的話，所謂的“Galaxie項目”將導致Grandpuits煉油廠的煉油活動結束，并可能導致失業。這名消息人士說：“在塞納-馬恩省有很多甜菜生產，因此改造后的Grandpuits煉油廠可以從農產品和回收塑料中獲得原料。”“生物燃料生產是一臺提款機。位于馬賽附近的拉梅德煉油廠生產的一噸生物燃料的價值遠遠超過了安特衛普煉油廠生產的一噸傳統石油產品的價值。”

道達爾公司曾在7月6日表示，該公司正在對PLIF管道進行審計，“Grandpuits煉油廠的長期未來取決于這條管道的可行性”，道達爾公司補充說，它“不準備與存在缺陷的部門合作”。

道達爾公司9月22日表示，Grandpuits煉油廠改造項目不會導致失業。“當煉油工業發生變化時，沒有人會失去工作。在Carling煉油廠和拉梅德煉油廠均沒有裁員，只有退休和內部轉移到其他地方。”。

2016年底，拉梅德煉油廠停止原油加工，并于2019年開始生產生物柴油。

Grandpuits煉油廠在今年3月至6月期間停產，部分原因是新冠肺炎疫情大流行期間需求低迷，但去年在從勒阿弗爾港輸送原油的管道泄漏后，這個煉油廠在去年2月底至7月期間停產了5個月。

李峻 編譯自 石化新聞

原文如下：

Total to convert France's Grandpuits into bio plant

Total's Grandpuits refinery in north-central France will be converted into a plant for the production of bio plastics due to potentially costly repairs on the Ile-de-France pipeline (PLIF) bringing crude to the plant, according to a CGT union source.

"A meeting of the CSEC [Comite Social et Economique Central or Social and Economics Central Committee] -- was called for Sept. 24 and we were told by Total management this morning that two points were added to the order of the day, which confirmed the conversion of Grandpuits refinery into an agro-plastics producing plant," a CGT union source told S&P Global Platts Sept. 22.

The refinery is expected to close in March 2021, the union source said.

According to the union source, the so-called "Projet Galaxie" will lead to the end of refining activity at Grandpuits and the likely loss of jobs. "In Seine-et-Marne there is a lot of beetroot production and thus the converted Grandpuits plant could get feedstocks from agricultural products and recycled plastics," the source said. "Biofuel production is a cash machine... a ton of biofuel produced at La Mede refinery has much more value than one ton of traditional oil product from the Antwerp refinery," the source added.

Total said July 6 that the company was carrying out an audit of the pipeline and the "longer term future of Grandpuits" depends upon "the viability of the pipeline," adding that it is "not prepared to work with units which have deficiencies."

The company said Sept. 22 that the Grandpuits project will not lead to job losses. "No one loses their job at Total when there are industrial changes. At Carling or at La Mede, there were no layoffs but retirements and internal moves to other sites," Total said.

La Mede stopped processing crude at the end of 2016 and started up as a biodiesel plant in 2019.

Grandpuits was offline between March and June this year, partly due to low demand during the coronavirus pandemic, but last year remained offline between late February and July after the pipeline which brings crude from Le Havre port leaked.