Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline cracks dip

LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline profit margins dipped by about $1.91 a barrel to $16.44 on Thursday despite a fall in stockpiles.

• A total of 19,000 metric tons of Eurobob E5 gasoline barges were traded as Exxon and Glencore sold to Trafigura, Varo and TotalEnergies.

• Another 6,000 tons of Eurobob E10 gasoline barges in total changed hands with Trafigura selling to BP and Varo.

• Gasoline stocks independently held in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub fell by around 8% on the week, data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed on Thursday.

• Lukoil LKOH.MM said on Thursday it had accepted an offer from global commodity trader Gunvor to buy its foreign assets, which Russia's second-largest oil company is seeking to sell after Washington imposed sanctions on it last week.

• Meanwhile, a ship carrying Russian naphtha has been stuck off India's western coast, unable to unload, since October 26 after U.S. sanctions on two key suppliers disrupted Indian oil and fuel imports, traders said and shipping data confirmed.​

• EU and UK gasoline and blending component exports to other regions have averaged 1.01 million bpd in October, according to preliminary Kpler data, compared with 928,000 bpd in September, making this month's exports potentially the highest since May this year.

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