The service stations of Île-de-France, still very affected by fuel shortages, should experience a “marked improvement” this week, despite persistent strikes against the pension reform, assured this Monday the trade union of companies. oil companies (Ufip). “We’re off to a bad start to the week, but I think things will improve significantly during the course of this week,” said Olivier Gantois, president of Ufip.
All the departments of Île-de-France were on Monday in the top 10 of the departments most affected by shortages, according to government data analyzed by AFP. Essonne is the most affected department (50.4%), ahead of Val-de-Marne (50%), Indre-et-Loire (48.4%), Hauts-de-Seine (43 .4%), Yvelines (39.5%), Seine-Saint-Denis (38.2%) and Paris (38.2%). Shortages that mainly affect the super unleaded.
Across the country, last week, “we started at 17% of stations in difficulty (lack of at least one product) throughout France (15.7% according to data analyzed by AFP), and we finished at 9%”, recalled Olivier Gantois, who underlines that the figure of nearly 11% observed on Monday (10.3% according to AFP) “confirms the trend of improvement”, despite a rise due to the absence of deliveries on Saturday afternoon and Sunday.
Half of the stations lack unleaded
“On the other hand, there is a hard point, it is lead-free in Île-de-France”, underlined Olivier Gantois. According to him, on diesel, there are “no more problems than elsewhere, we are in the 9, 10% (out of stations), on the other hand, in unleaded, we are between a third and the half of stations that lack lead-free”. A situation due, according to him, to fears relating to the lack of kerosene in Parisian airports ten days ago and which had prompted the government to make requisitions at the Normandy refinery of TotalEnergies.
“It’s called undressing Paul to dress Jean,” he explained. “All these products go through the same pipeline to go to Île-de-France”: “when there was this concern at Paris airports, jet fuel supplies came before unleaded supplies”, added he indicated. “Since then, we have put lead-free back into the pipeline in order to replenish the depots in the Paris region, but it was still tense at the end of last week: I think that this week, as the pumping is going to happen, the situation will improve very markedly in Île-de-France,” he concluded.