Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Gasoline refining margins fall

LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline refining margins fell from the previous session, down $1.49 to $42.55 a barrel on Wednesday as crude prices rose.

• A total of 2,000 metric tons of Eurobob E5 barges traded on Argus, with ExxonMobil selling to Gunvor.

• Another 2,000 tons of Eurobob E10 barges traded on Argus, with Finco selling to Varo.

• Exxon Mobil sold an E5 barge to Trafigura in the Platts window.

• U.S. gasoline stocks USOILG=ECI rose by 7,000 barrels in the week to 211.3 million barrels, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.

• Thirty-nine commodity ships passed through the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Tuesday, the highest number since July 19, while five transited on Wednesday, preliminary shipping data showed, with only a few transiting through the Strait of Hormuz.

• Motiva Enterprises is repairing a boiler on the shut gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit at its 656,400 barrel-per-day Port Arthur, Texas, refinery, two people familiar with plant operations said on Tuesday.

(Reporting by Enes Tunagur; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)

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