PARIS (Reuters) -Force majeure notices were issued to customers at LNG terminal operator Elengy’s three sites because of a strike blocking ship arrivals before October 2 and reducing gas network outflows, an Elengy spokesperson said on Friday.
The month-long strikes over salary negotiations for the French electric and gas industry sector have affected all four of the French LNG terminals that help to supply European neighbours with gas, but disruptions at the fourth site in Dunkirk were minimal.
The reduced deliveries from the French LNG terminals are supporting gas prices, though the impact is somewhat balanced by increased flows from Norway, where a maintenance period is ending, analysts said.
Both Fos LNG terminals in the south were blocked from sending out gas on the network, with reduced outflows from the Montoir terminal in the west, the spokesperson said, adding that tank loading has also been interrupted at the Fos Cavaou terminal.
(Reporting by Forrest Crellin and Nora Buli in OsloEditing by David Goodman)
