Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline crack spreads widen

LONDON, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline refinery profit margins rose by $1.05 on Thursday to about $16.85 per barrel, even as independently-held inventories in Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) built last week according to data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global.

• A total of 4,000 metric tons of Eurobob E5 gasoline barges traded, which TotalEnergies sold to BP.

• An additional 14,100 tons of Eurobob E10 gasoline barges traded in the session, with Equinor, Sahara and ExxonMobil selling to Varo, BP and MB Energy.

• ARA gasoline stocks rose 10% to 1.08 million tons, according to Insights Global. The rise was because of slower exports to other regions, Insights Global's Lars van Wageningen said, adding that exports to West Africa could pick up in the coming days. ARA/

• EU and UK gasoline exports are on track to reach 888,000 barrels per day in November, Kpler data showed, compared with 942,000 bpd last month.

• There was also a stock build in gasoline inventories across the Atlantic last week, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

• U.S. gasoline stocks USOILG=ECI rose by 2.5 million barrels in the week to 209.9 million barrels, the EIA said, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 0.7 million-barrel build.

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