Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline refining profit margins fall

LONDON, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline refinery profit margins fell by 39 cents to $8.86 a barrel on Tuesday.

• About 9,200 metric tons of Eurobob E5 gasoline traded on barges in the Argus window as ExxonMobil and Equinor sold to Gunvor, TotalEnergies and BP.

• Another 4,000 tons of Eurobob E10 gasoline barges traded in the session, with ExxonMobil selling to BP and Van Raak.

• Refined oil product stocks independently held in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub fell by nearly 4% in the week to December 25, data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed on Monday.

• Gasoline stocks fell 10% to about 1.1 million tons on firm export activity to West Africa, Insights Global's Lars van Wageningen said.

• Meanwhile, EU-27 and UK gasoline exports to other regions have averaged 691,000 barrels per day so far this month, down from 903,000 bpd across the full month of November.