There have been no commercial injections of gas at the Atlantic Montoir de Bretagne since October 15, and an upturn in send-outs this weekend was purely for technical checks.
Strikers, protesting against port and pension reforms, have also halted flows at the Mediterranean Fos Tonkin facility and the only LNG terminal sending gas into the French grid Monday was the newly commissioned Fos Cavaou facility.
"As far as I know, the situation is unchanged [Tuesday]," a GDF Suez spokeswoman said.
The 364.2 GWh of inputs last week came from the Fos hub, grouping together the Fos Cavaou and Fos Tonkin terminals. This was 74.2% lower than the same week last year, when Fos Tonkin was France's only Mediterranean terminal in service.
The strike action has also coincided with a cold spell and weekly gas demand in the GRTgaz grid rose by 21.0% on the year to 11,131.1 GWh.
LNG supplies represented just 3% of this gas demand, compared with 26% in the same week last year.
There were no dramatic changes to net inflows of pipeline gas into France at the entry points of Obergailbach, Dunkirk and Taisnieres, compared with the same week in 2009.
At Dunkirk, the entry point for gas from Norway, weekly inflows fell by 11.4% on the year to 3,218.6 GWh.
At Obergailbach, the entry point for Russian gas, net inflows fell by 8.0% to 1,700.4 GWh.
At Taisnieres, on the Belgian border, net inflows rose by 22.8% to 4,362.9 GWh, high and low calorific gas combined.
As a week on week comparison, there was a 125.6% rise in inflows at Obergailbach, after relatively low levels in the previous week.
Net inflows rose by 2.8% and by 3.6% on the week at Dunkirk and Taisnieres, respectively.
LNG injections fell by 68.9% week on week. As well as the 100% drop in injections at Montoir, there was a 54.6% drop at the Fos hub, compared with the week ending October 17.
Weekly gas demand in the GRTgaz grid rose by 30.7% on the week. As a result, the share of this gas demand met by LNG supplies fell from 14% in the week ending October 17, to 3% last week.
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