LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline refining profits rose by about $1 on Friday to $5.80 a barrel as a sharp fall in regional inventories supported.
* Shell sold a barge of Eurobob E10 traded in the Argus window to Trafigura.
* Another 16,000 metric tons of Eurobob E5 barges traded, as Gunvor sold to Shell, ExxonMobil and Mabanaft.
* Gasoline stocks independently held in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp $(ARA)$ refining and storage hub fell by 8.5% in the week to Nov. 28, data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed.
* Gasoline stocks dropped to 1.14 million tons because of higher exports to Africa, Insight Global's Lars van Wageningen said.
* US gasoline demand in September was 151,000 barrels per day (bpd), or 1.7%, from a year earlier at 8.994 mln bpd, Energy Information Administration data showed.
Trade Bid Offer Prev. Seller Buyer
Ebob
Barges MOC
Platts E5
(fob ARA)
<EUROBOB-A
RA>
Ebob
Barges E10
Platts
(fob ARA)
Ebob $663.7 Gunvor Shell,
Barges $662.25 5 Exxon,
Argus E5 (16KT) (15KT) Mabana
(fob AR) ft
Ebob $668.25 $674.5 Shell Trafig
Barges E10 on 3KT 0 ura
Argus (fob (1KT $(5KT.SI)$
AR) assessed
)
Dec swap $662.75 $658.7
(fob ARA) 5
Premium
Unleaded
(fob ARA)
<PU-10PP-A
RA>
Cargoes
(fob MED)
Cargoes
(cif NWE)
Naphtha
(cif NWE)
<NAF-C-NWE
>
Ebob crack (per barrel) $5.74 Prev. $4.77
Brent futures
Rbob
Rbob crack
(Reporting by Ahmad Ghaddar, Editing by Louise Heavens)
((Ahmad.Ghaddar@thomsonreuters.com; +442075424435; Reuters Messaging: ahmad.ghaddar.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))
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