* In France, TotalEnergies' refinery deliveries were suspended on Wednesday, electricity output reduced and train services disrupted as those sectors continued a strike aimed at blocking the government's plan to delay the retirement age by two years to 64.
* TotalEnergies workers on Wednesday took a majority vote to halt production at the Feyzin refinery close to Lyon as part of wider strike action across France against a planned pension reform, a CGT union official told Reuters.
* CGT representative Eric Sellini said the union was now negotiating the modalities on how to organise the shutdown with management.
* Rhine river traffic came to a standstill in some places on Wednesday due to the strikes, with sections of the river in France, Germany and Switzerland affected, a CGT union representative and Germany's Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSA) said.
* Last year extended strike action closed around 70% of France's refining capacity.
* James Burleigh, Wood Mackenzie analyst, said he was currently seeing no
impact,
adding the impact of the strike would become more serious in a few days if
movements to and from the French ports and refineries are blocked.
* U.S. crude oil stockpiles fell last week, breaking a 10-week
streak
of builds, according to the Energy Information Administration.
* U.S. gasoline stocks fell by 1.1 million barrels in the week
to
238.1 million barrels, and U.S. gasoline demand over the past four weeks fell
0.2% from a year ago, the EIA said, while total product demand in the period
fell 8.4%.
* Slashed output at Germany's Schwedt oil refinery demonstrates the
difficulty
Berlin faces in turning away from Russian oil.
* Three months after Warsaw and Berlin agreed to work together the refinery
is
running at 50-60% of capacity and those alternative supplies remain elusive.
* Gasoline held in independent storage in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp
(ARA)
refining and storage area fell 2.3% to 1.42 million tonnes, Refinitiv data
showed, even as exports to the United States and West Africa slowed down.
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