* Fuel shipments resumed early Friday from TotalEnergies Gonfreville refinery in France after police intervened to disperse refinery workers holding a blockage, Energy Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said on Friday.
* Some 15% of French petrol stations were experiencing disruptions, she said, adding 10 fuel depot out of 200 were still blocked.
* 31% of TotalEnergies' operational staff at the oil major's French refineries and depots were on strike Friday morning, a spokesperson said.
* FACTBOX on strike impact on French refineries, LNG imports.
* Although gasoline margins are still high for this time of year, any increase in gasoline cracks may be constrained by increased refinery utilisation in the U.S. and lacklustre demand in Europe, Refinitiv analysts said.
* Estimates for March loadings from northwestern Europe are currently at 1.29 million tonnes, which is still quite low in historical terms. Due to fresh information, February loadings rose to 2.17 million tonnes, Refinitiv analysts said.
* Russia's offline primary oil refining capacity will rise by 425,000-455,000 barrels per day (bpd) in April compared to February-March, close to the 500,000 bpd output cut indicted by the state for the March to June period, data and Reuters calculations showed.
* Gasoline stocks held in independent storage in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage area rose by 6%, data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed on Thursday.
* Exports to the U.S. were lower and there were high flows of naphtha into the gasoline blending pool, said Insights Global's Lars van Wageningen.
* A drop in U.S. gasoline stocks this week means a surge of product is expected to move across the Atlantic, Insights Global added.
* U.S. gasoline stocks fell by 6.4 million barrels to 229.6 million barrels last week, Energy Information Administration data showed on Wednesday.
* That compared with expectations of a 1.7 million barrel drop in a Reuters poll of analysts.?
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