LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline refining margins held steady from the previous session at around $42 a barrel on Thursday as increasing stocks made up for refinery outages.
- A total of 2,000 metric tons of Eurobob E5 barges traded on Argus, with ExxonMobil selling to Gunvor.
- Another 6,000 tons of Eurobob E10 barges traded on Argus, with Shell and Sahara selling to Varo.
- Gasoline stocks independently held in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub rose 21% on higher production, lower inland demand and lack of exports.
- Meanwhile naphtha stocks rose 31% to their highest since February this year on more imports.
- The Russian government extended its bans on export of diesel and gasoline until January 31, 2027, it said in a statement on Thursday.
- The country's Ryazan oil refinery, one of Russia's largest plants, halted crude oil processing on Wednesday following a drone attack and could be shut for two weeks, two industry sources told Reuters.
- However, exchange data on the St. Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange showed that gasoline and diesel fuel volumes were offered for sale on Thursday.
- Russia's Perm refinery was also damaged by strikes and was forced to shutdown one of its crude distillation units (CDU), two industry sources told Reuters.
- EU-27 and UK gasoline and blending component exports to other regions have averaged 996,000 barrels per day so far this month, from an average of 1.05 million bpd for the whole of June, Kpler data showed.
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