Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline crack slips on higher inventories

LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline profit margins fell by 82 cents to $17.16 a barrel on Thursday as regional inventories rose.

• A total of 4,000 metric tons of Eurobob E5 barges traded, with Equinor and Glencore selling to Gunvor.

• A total of 8,000 metric tons of E10 barges traded, as Shell sold to BP, Finco, and ExxonMobil.

• Gasoline stocks independently held in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub rose by about 2% on the week, data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed on Thursday.

• Gasoline stocks stood at 1.22 million metric tons, rising as blending activity picked up and despite an increase in exports on the previous week, Insights Global's Lars van Wageningen said.

• US gasoline stocks USOILG=ECI rose by 4.1 million barrels last week to 220.7 million barrels, the Energy Information Administration said, compared with expectations in a Reuters poll for a 675,000-barrel build.

• EU and UK gasoline exports to other regions reached 895,000 barrels per day (bpd) in September, according to Kpler data, up from 856,000 bpd in August.​

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