Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline crack spreads widen

LONDON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline refinery profit margins rose by 79 cents to $15.76 a barrel on Wednesday, as U.S. inventories rose last week according to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

• About 6,000 metric tons of Eurobob E5 gasoline traded on barges on Wednesday, as Glencore sold to Aramco Trading and MB Energy.

• A further 4,000 tons of Eurobob E10 gasoline barges traded, with ExxonMobil selling to Varo.

• U.S. gasoline stocks rose by 6.4 million barrels in the week to 220.8 million barrels, the EIA said, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 2.8 million-barrel rise.

• Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp plans to shut one of its crude units and several secondary units at its Mailiao refining site for maintenance in mid-March next year, company spokesperson K.Y. Lin said.

• EU and UK gasoline exports to other regions hit 938,000 barrels per day last month, down slightly from 947,000 bpd in October, Kpler data shows.