LONDON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Gasoline barge prices andrefining margins sunk on Thursday on the back of a sell-off inU.S. gasoline futures after investors bid up the product lastweek on hurricane fears.
* Outages in Venezuela did little to prop up the marketstill suffering from a surplus after a lacklutre summer drivingseason, particularly in the U.S. East Coast, usually a majorpull for European product.
* Venezuela's 310,000-barrel-per-day Cardon refinery was notoperating after an electrical outage early on Thursday while theadjacent 645,000 bpd Amuay refinery was operating at only225,000 bpd, according to an internal PDVSA document seen byReuters.
* Gasoline stocks independently held in theAmsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp oil hub fell by almost 12 percent totheir lowest since early January on the back of transatlanticand West African exports, according to Dutch consultancy PJKInternational.
GASOLINE
* One barge of benchmark Eurobob gasoline traded at $444 atonne fob ARA after no activity in the previous session.
* Some 10,000 tonnes traded throughout the day at $447-$460a tonne fob ARA, down from $463-$472 a tonne fob ARA
* Two barges of premium unleaded gasoline traded at$459-$460 a tonne fob ARA.
* The September swap stood at around $428.50 a tonne, downfrom $467.50 a tonne at the close.
* Gasoline barge refining margins fell to $7.97 a barrel,from $9.56 a barrel on Wednesday.
* Brent crude oil futures were down $1.19 at $45.70a barrel by 1553 GMT.
* U.S. August RBOB gasoline futures were down 4.05percent at 1.4228 a gallon.
* The U.S. gasoline crack
NAPHTHA
* BP sold a cargo to Koch at $365 a tonne cif NorthwestEurope for Sept. 20-24 delivery. The deal price was down fromtwo done in the previous session at $371 and $371.50 a tonne cifNorthwest Europe.
(Reporting by Julia Payne, editing by Ahmad Ghaddar)