Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline cracks firm on lower inventories

LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline profit margins rose by $2.34 to $25.81 a barrel on Thursday as inventories of the motor fuel fell on both sides of the Atlantic.

• A total of 6,000 metric tons of Eurobob E5 gasoline barges traded as Equinor and Trafigura sold to Varo and Shell.

• No barges of Eurobob E10 gasoline traded.

• Gasoline stocks independently held in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub fell by 7.4% on the week, data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed on Thursday.

• Gasoline stocks fell to 980,000 tons on higher exports, particularly to the United States, Insights Global's Lars van Wageningen said.

• U.S. gasoline stocks USOILG=ECI fell by 945,000 barrels last week to 205.1 million barrels, the Energy Information Administration said, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 1.89-million-barrel draw.

• Russia's oil processing has fallen just 3% this year despite Ukraine's biggest drone attacks to date as refineries averted a steep decline in fuel production by leveraging spare capacity to offset damage from the strikes, sources said and data showed.

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