Strike May Shut Down French Refineries

GALWAY, IRELAND--October 8, 2010--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Petroplus Holdings AG (VTX:PPHN) (Zug, Switzerland), Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) (Irving, Texas), Total SA (NYSE:TOT) (Paris, France) and LyondelBassell (Rotterdam, Netherlands) may be forced to shut down refineries located in France because of a strike that began at the end of September at the Fos-Lavéra Port.