Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline margins slip despite US stock fall

LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline refining profit margins fell by about 43 cents on Wednesday to $10.46 a barrel despite an unexpected fall in U.S. inventories, as low export demand weighed.

• A total of 8,000 metric tons of E5 gasoline traded, as TotalEnergies sold barges to BP, Varo and Musket.

• No E10 gasoline barges traded.

• In the Platts window, Trafigura offered a gasoline cargo in the Mediterranean, while Vitol sought a cargo. Musket offered a cargo for Thames delivery.

• U.S. gasoline stocks USOILG=ECI fell by 3 million barrels last week to 248.1 million barrels, according to the Energy Information Administration, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 1.4 million-barrel build.

• UK and EU gasoline exports are on track to reach 816,000 barrels per day so far this month, compared with 1.43 million bpd in January, Kpler data show.