* TotalEnergies' 240,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Gonfreville refinery, the company's largest refinery, has been stopped, a company spokesperson said on Monday, as the industrial action against the government's pension reforms continued.
* Industrial action against the French government's pension reforms disrupting the 240,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Port Jerome refinery, one of the largest in France, has been extended until March 29, the CGT union said in a tweet on Monday.
* Some 32% of the operational staff at TotalEnergies' French refineries and depots were on strike on Monday, a spokesperson said.
* The Spanish government has tightened its rules around ship-to-ship oil transfers after an uptick in the activity along its coastline.
* 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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Brent futures Rbob Rbob crack (Reporting by Shadia Nasralla; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)
