France payroll employment: coke and refined petroleum (A17)
France payroll employment: coke and refined petroleum (A17) stood at 8.7 thousand persons in Q2 2026, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Payroll employment table (Value · Quarterly), with a complete series running from Q4 1970 to Q2 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Payroll employment table
| Indicator | Q2-2026 | Q1-2026 | Q4-2025 | Q3-2025 | Q2-2025 | Q1-2025 | Q4-2024 | Q3-2024 | Q2-2024 | Q1-2024 | |
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| Payroll employment | |||||||||||
| Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products - A17: C2 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.7 | |
| Manufacture of electrical, electronical and computer equipments - A17: C3 | 418.9 | 419.2 | 420.4 | 421 | 421.2 | 421.9 | 421.5 | 421.4 | 420.4 | 419.5 |
Understanding france payroll employment: coke and refined petroleum (A17)
Salaried jobs dedicated to the transformation of crude petroleum and the production of coke oven products are tracked in thousand persons. This narrow industrial segment isolates specialized refinery operations from chemical production and general manufacturing activities. Excluded are petroleum extraction workers, pipeline operators outside refinery gates, and wholesale distributors of fuel products.
Interpreting this series requires attention to scheduled refinery overhauls and maintenance shutdowns, which can cause sharp, temporary drops in active headcounts independent of broader economic trends. Initial reporting often involves provisional enterprise surveys that undergo correction when mandatory environmental and fiscal filings are verified. Because this industry is exceptionally capital-intensive, headcount numbers are small and rarely reflect the scale of financial turnover or output volume generated by the sector.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this count include workers drilling for crude oil?
- Extraction activities are excluded, leaving the focus solely on refining and coke production facilities.
- Why might employment drop abruptly in a single period?
- Scheduled industrial maintenance and refinery overhauls frequently necessitate temporary contractions in active on-site personnel.
- Do staffing levels correlate closely with refinery revenue?
- Due to high capital intensity and automation, employment counts in this sector remain largely decoupled from financial turnover.