Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline profit margins rise

LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline profit margins rose 35 cents to $15.76 a barrel on Thursday on lower stocks.

• A total of 10,000 metric tons of Eurobob E5 barges traded in the session, with Gunvor, BP and Trafigura selling to Exxon and TotalEnergies.

• An additional total of 10,000 tons of Eurobob E10 barges traded in the session, with Shell, Sahara and Exxon all selling to Varo.

• Gasoline stocks held independently in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub fell 5.2% last week, data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed on Thursday. ARA/

• Damage from Ukrainian drone attacks and extensive planned maintenance have sent Russia's offline oil refining capacity to a record high in August, Reuters calculations show, at a time of high seasonal demand for gasoline from tourists and farmers.

• However, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia's domestic fuel market was fully supplied and the situation was under control.

• Mexico's 340,000-barrel-per-day Dos Bocas refinery has been offline since Monday due to a power outage at the plant, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, which also impacted a compressor on the 94,000 bpd gasoline-producing unit at the refinery.

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