Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline margins edge higher on lower stocks
LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) -Northwest European gasoline refining margins rose by about 50 cents to $9.10 a barrel on Friday on support from a drop in regional inventories.
A total of 6,000 metric tons of Eurobob E10 barges traded in the Argus window. Shell sold to Varo and TotalEnergies.
A further 8,000 tons of Eurobob E5 changed hands. Gunvor sold to Trafigura, BP and BMV.
ARA gasoline stocks fell 5.6% to 934,000 tons in the week to Sept. 26, data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed.
Gasoline stocks fell as lower blending activity and regional refinery maintenance work offset a week of lacklustre exports out of the region, Insights Global's Rick Veringmeier told Reuters.
Meanwhile, EU and UK gasoline exports are on track to reach 993,000 barrels per day, according to Kpler data, compared with 1.16 million bpd in August.
Refining margins have shed value in the last few days as winter specification gasoline typically trades at a discount to summer because of looser evaporability specifications in colder temperatures.
"The end of the summer has brought with it the usual seasonal downturn in gasoline fundamentals," said Philip Jones-Lux, an analyst at Sparta Commodities.
Trade | Bid | Offer | Prev. | Seller | Buyer | |
Ebob Barges MOC Platts E5 (fob ARA) EUROBOB-ARA | $699 | |||||
Ebob Barges E10 Platts (fob ARA) | ||||||
Ebob Barges Argus E5 (fob AR) | $682.50 (8KT) | $677.25 | Gunvor | Trafigura, BP, BMV | ||
Ebob Barges E10 Argus (fob AR) | $685.25 (6KT) | $677 | Shell | Varo, TotalEnergies | ||
Oct swap (fob ARA) | $672 | $676.75 | ||||
Premium Unleaded (fob ARA) PU-10PP-ARA | ||||||
Cargoes (fob MED) | Oct FOB Med +$6 | |||||
Cargoes (cif NW E) | $720 | |||||
Naphtha (cif NW E) NAF-C-NWE | Oct +$3 |
Ebob crack (per barrel) | $9.10 | Prev. $8.56 |
Brent futures | LCOc1 | |
Rbob | RBc1 | |
Rbob crack | RBc1-CLc1 | |
Reporting by Ahmad Ghaddar; Editing by Paul Simao
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