Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline profit margins hold steady

LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline profit margins were broadly steady at about $13.17 a barrel on Wednesday as US inventories fell more than expected.

• A total of 9,200 metric tons of Eurobob E5 gasoline barges traded, slightly below the previous session's liquidity. Shell and BP sold barges to TotalEnergies and Aramco.

• An additional 4,000 tons of Eurobob E10 barges traded, compared with 14,000 tons on Tuesday, as TotalEnergies sold to Varo and Trafigura.

• US gasoline stocks USOILG=ECI fell by 1.7 million barrels last week to 231.1 million barrels, the Energy Information Administration said, nearly double expectations in a Reuters poll for a 908,000-barrel draw.

• Product supplied of gasoline, a proxy for demand, rose by 478,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 8.97 million bpd. The four-week average for product supplied was at 8.81 million bpd, versus 9.27 million bpd last year.

• Nigeria's Dangote oil refinery is expected to carry out a 40-day planned maintenance at its gasoline-making unit in December, instead of in October as previously planned, industry monitor IIR said.

• EU and UK gasoline and blending component exports to other regions averaged 883,000 bpd in July so far, lower than the 904,000 bpd in June, Kpler data showed.