Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline refining margins slide

LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline refinery profit margins fell $5.62 to $14.32 a barrel on Wednesday despite a sharp drop in U.S. inventories, as higher crude prices weighed.

• A total of 22,000 metric tons of E5 gasoline barges traded in the Argus window as Exxon Mobil, Equinor and BP sold to TotalEnergies.

• An additional 8,000 tons of E10 gasoline barges changed hands, with Trafigura selling to Varo.

• U.S. gasoline stocks USOILG=ECI fell by 6.1 million barrels last week to 222.3 million barrels, the Energy Information Administration said, compared with analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 2.1 million-barrel draw.

• Total exports of all petroleum products hit 14.18 million barrels per day (bpd), up 1.298 million bpd from the week prior, while overall product supplied, a proxy for demand, rose 1.4 million bpd to 21.13 million bpd.

• Nigeria's Dangote oil refinery has been running its gasoline-making RFCC unit at 75% capacity since April 22 owing to a temperature control issue, according to an IIR alert seen by Reuters.

• Meanwhile, EU-27 and UK exports of gasoline have reached 865,000 barrels per day so far in April, compared with an average of 991,000 bpd for the whole of March.