Paris — French oil giant TotalEnergies said on Saturday there was a power cut at its Feyzin refinery in southern France at 0445 GMT on Saturday and a crisis team was activated.
Power returned on the platform at 0558 GMT and service was being progressively restored, the statement said.
Impact from the outage on production at the 119,000 bpd Feyzin refinery should be minimal. It was not immediately clear what caused the power outage.
Gilles Noguerol, the head of Feyzin, told Reuters that all the site’s units had been secured and that for safety reasons flares had been activated to manage and evacuate excess gas.
This in turn generated heavy black smoke that could be seen outside the Feyzin refinery located near Lyon, he said.
“I am not worried about the (smoke) toxicity” he said, adding that air quality checks made by firemen did not show abnormal concentration levels.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Alison Williams and Emelia Sithole-Matarise) – Reuters+
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