Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline cracks soften on US stockbuild

LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline profit margins fell by 49 cents to $22.75 a barrel on Wednesday, pressured by an unexpected rise in U.S. inventories of the motor fuel.

• A total of 11,000 metric tons of Eurobob E5 gasoline barges traded as Gunvor sold to TotalEnergies, BMV, ExxonMobil and Shell.

• Another 3,000 tons of Eurobob E10 gasoline barges traded with Gunvor selling to Varo.

• U.S. gasoline stocks USOILG=ECI rose by 2.3 million barrels last week to 207.4 million barrels, the Energy Information Administration said, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 200,000-barrel draw.​

• Nigeria's 650,000 barrel-per-day Dangote refinery has delayed maintenance on its crude distillation unit to the end of January, from earlier plans of undertaking it next month, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.

• The crude distillation unit's turnaround was pushed to January 30 of next year and is set to last for seven days, one of the sources said, citing a client note by industry monitor IIR Energy.

• Meanwhile, EU and UK gasoline exports are on track to reach 718,000 barrels per day in November, according to Kpler data, compared with 916,000 bpd last month. ​