Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline refining margins climb

LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline refinery profit margins rose by 46 cents on the day to $10.02 a barrel on Thursday as regional inventories were stable.

• About 12,000 metric tons of Eurobob E5 gasoline traded on barges in the Argus window as Equinor, Glencore and ExxonMobil sold to BP and Aramco.

• Total oil product stocks independently held in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub rose by nearly 1% on the week, data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed on Thursday.

• Total stocks stood at 5.89 million metric tons, the data showed.

• Gasoline stocks rose marginally to 1.27 million tons and exports to the United States are likely to rise in the coming week, Insight Global's Lars van Wageningen said.

• U.S. Gulf Coast gasoline stockpiles rose to their highest since January 2020 in the week ended January 2, the EIA said.

• Vitol, one of the world's largest commodity traders, has received a preliminary special license from the U.S. government to begin negotiations to import and export oil from Venezuela for 18 months, four sources told Reuters on Thursday.