Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline crack spreads ease

LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline refinery profit margins fell by about 72 cents to $15.01 a barrel on Friday.

• A total of 18,000 metric tons of Eurobob E5 gasoline traded on barges on Friday, as Glencore, Equinor, and Trafigura sold to Gunvor, ExxonMobil, BMV Mineraloel, Aramco, Varo, and BP.

• No Eurobob E10 gasoline barges traded in the session.

• The Group of Seven countries and the European Union are in talks to replace a price cap on Russian oil exports with a full maritime services ban in a bid to reduce the oil revenue that helps finance Russia's war in Ukraine, six sources familiar with the matter said.

• Gasoline stocks independently held in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub climbed by 5% on the week to 1.13 million tons, data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed on Thursday.​

• EU and UK gasoline exports to other regions hit 948,000 barrels per day last month, above October's 942,000 bpd, Kpler data shows.