Commodity Market Report
France downstream oil long-term outlook
Report summary
France is a mature market in which overall oil demand is in slow but steady decline. Overall, there is a diesel/gasoil deficit in the domestic market relative to its local refinery product output, although it retains a gasoline surplus. Some restructuring of the refining sector has seen a reduction in overall refinery capacity in recent years, with Total's La Mede facility converted to a specialist biorefinery. In fuel retail, France remains one of the most competitive markets in Europe with the hypermarkets continuing to exert downward pressure on margins through its discount fuel offering. Domestic refiner Total has the largest network at over 3,500 sites, nearly double that of any other player. The majority of the other oil majors, however, have now exited the market. This has seen the entrance of independent dealer networks in the past five years, which leverage brand licencing agreements and the branded wholesale model.
Table of contents
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Executive summary
- Market drivers
- Outlook
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Demand
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Gasoline
- Car parc by fuel type
- Jet kerosene
- Diesel/gasoil
- Fuel oil
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Gasoline
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Policy and regulation
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Regulatory issues
- Excise duty and taxes
- Compulsory stockholding
- Biofuels
- Environmental legislation
- Product quality
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Regulatory issues
- Trade
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Market structure
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Fuels retailing
- Volumes
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Overall network development
- Retail outlets by brand
- Market shares
- Motorway fuel outlets
- Hypermarket fuel outlets
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International oil companies
- Total
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Independent groups
- EG Group (BP/Esso brands)
- Certas Energy (Esso brand)
- Network efficiency
- Performance pacesetters in the retail market
- Non-fuel retailing
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Commercial fuels
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Motor fuels (gasoline/diesel)
- Commercial transport fuel volumes
- Industrial/domestic gas oil
- Aviation kerosene
- Heavy fuel oil
- Marine bunkers
- LPG
- Lubricants
- Bitumen
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Motor fuels (gasoline/diesel)
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Fuels retailing
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Margins
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Key issues influencing gross fuel margins
- Retail fuels marketing
- Retail price formation
- Marketing gross fuel margins
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Marketing net profitability
- Commercial fuels marketing
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Key issues influencing gross fuel margins
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Infrastructure
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Distribution of oil products
- TRAPIL shareholders
- SPMR shareholders
- Rubis Terminals
- Independent storage facilities
- Crude oil delivery
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Country crude slate overview
- Donges refinery profile
- Feyzin refinery profile
- Fos sur Mer refinery profile
- Gonfreville I'Orcher refinery profile
- Grandpuits refinery profile
- Lavera refinery profile
- Port-Jerome Gravenchon refinery profile
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Distribution of oil products
Tables and charts
This report includes 40 images and tables including:
- Key demand indicators
- Total demand
- Annual demand change
- Demand: Table 2
- Demand by product
- Demand by sector
- Trade balance
- Trade: Table 1
- Storage and distribution infrastructure
- Diesel/gasoil demand by sector
- Fuel oil demand by sector
- Demand forecast
- Annual gross fuel marketing margins
- Main products: annual average unit gross margins
- Unit net margins
- Means of primary distribution
- Pipeline capacity and ownership
- Crude input slate - 2017
- Demand: Image 5
- Policy and regulation: Table 1
- Retail fuel volumes
- Market structure: Table 1
- Market structure: Table 4
- Market structure: Table 5
- Number of sites and average throughputs
- Network effectiveness ratio: ratio of share of fuel sales to share of sites
- Infrastructure: Table 1
- Infrastructure: Table 2
- Infrastructure: Table 3
- Infrastructure: Table 4
- Infrastructure: Table 6
- Infrastructure: Table 7
- Infrastructure: Table 8
- Infrastructure: Table 9
- Infrastructure: Table 10
- Infrastructure: Table 11
- Infrastructure: Table 12
- Market structure: Table 2
- Market structure: Table 3
- Market structure: Image 4
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