From abroad to the gas station, the long journey of oil to your car


From refinery to station, fuel travels a long way. AFP / LOIC VENANCE / AFP / XAVIER LEOTY / AFP / GUILLAUME SOUVANT

DECRYPTION – 11,000 stations, 200 storage points… Le Figaro provides an update on the oil and fuel supply chain in France.

From the fields exploited by the oil giants in Russia, Saudi Arabia or Kazakhstan, to your petrol pump, oil travels a huge distance before fueling the cars of French motorists. Thousands of kilometres, by truck, by train, in a pipeline or by boat. Disturbed for several days by the strike affecting the refineries and depots of TotalEnergies and Esso-ExxonMobil, the oil chain is nevertheless well established.

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