All five of Total SA (FP) ’s refineries in France are resuming operations after employees at Gonfreville voted to return to work, the last to come back after a strike that began two weeks ago, the CGT union said. All facilities are resuming activity, Eric Sellini, a CGT union representative, said by phone today. The 247,000 barrel-a-day refinery at Gonfreville in northern France, Total’s largest in the country, is the third site since yesterday where staff have ended industrial action. Officials at Paris-based Total haven’t returned two phone calls and an e-mail seeking comment on the plant’s status. European diesel traded near the highest in two months this week, boosted by the strikes, which began on Dec. 13. “We estimate that France will have lost about 5.1 million barrels of distillates and 2.5 million barrels of gasoline production during those strikes,” Olivier Jakob , managing director of Petromatrix GmbH […]