Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline refining margins fall

(.) LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Northwest European ​gasoline refinery ⁠profit margins fell by ​62 cents on Thursday to about $8.63 a barrel despite a ​drop ‌in regional inventories. * About 6,000 metric tons of E5 ⁠gasoline barges traded in the Argus ⁠window on Thursday ​as Exxon Mobil and BP sold to TotalEnergies. * And a further 4,000 tons of Eurobob E10 gasoline barges ​traded ‌as Trafigura bought from Sahara and Shell. * Gasoline stocks held independently in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub fell by 5.7% on the week, data ​from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed on Thursday. * Gasoline ‌stocks stood at 1.28 million tons, and fell as exports ticked higher with ‌cargoes of the motor fuel going to Saudi Arabia, East and West Africa, Insights Global's Lars van ​Wageningen said. * Dangote Petroleum Refinery's crude distillation unit (CDU) and gasoline block ‌were back online and running at the plant's 650,000 barrel per day capacity during 72-hour performance tests carried ⁠out ⁠with Honeywell UOP, the refinery said ‌late on Wednesday. * Meanwhile, EU-27 and UK gasoline and blending component ​exports ​to other regions have averaged 648,000 barrels ‌per day so far in February, against 884,000 bpd in January. Trad Bid Offe Prev Seller Buyer e r . Ebob Barg es MOC Plat ts E5 (fob ARA) <EUR OBOB -ARA > Ebob Barg es E10 Plat ts (fob ARA) Ebob $638 $664 Exxon, TotalE Barg .50( (10K BP nergie es 6KT) T) s Argu s E5 (fob ARA) Ebob $640 $664 Barg .50 .75 es (4KT (4KT E10 ) ) Argu s (fob ARA) Mar. $652 $672 swap (fob ARA) Prem $67 Shell Gunvor ium 2 Unle aded (fob ARA) <PU- 10PP -ARA > Carg Marc oes h (fob -$8 MED) Carg oes (cif NWE) Naph Feb tha flat (cif NWE) <NAF -C-N WE> Ebob crack (per barrel) $8.63 Prev. $9.25 Brent futures Rbob Rbob crack <RBc1-CLc1> (Reporting by Ahmad Ghaddar; Editing by Kirsten Donovan )

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Valero Energy Corp

Total Energies

Marathon Petroleum Corp

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