* U.S. gasoline stocks rose by 2.3 million barrels to 241.9 million barrels in the week to Feb. 10, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.
* This far exceeded analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a 1.5 million-barrel rise.
* Northwest European (NWE) gasoline exports to the United States are already expected to slow to four medium-range tankers this week from six last week.
* Total Northwest European (NWE) gasoline exports in February are set to reach 1.15 million tonnes so far, according to Refinitiv data, compared with a revised four-month high of 3.04 million tonnes in January.
* In refining news, oil major Shell's Pernis refinery in Rotterdam
will
undergo major maintenance from the start of March through to the end of May, the
company said on Tuesday.?
* Following the European Union ban on Russian oil product imports that came
into
effect on Feb. 5, a ship operated by Denmark's Maersk Tankers has been banned
from Spanish ports, Spanish officials said. Its cargo of oil products was found
to have previously been carried by a vessel that was formerly Russian flagged.
* More Indian firms are attracted to buying Russian naphtha as low-cost
feedstock
for their refineries and petrochemical plants after price caps imposed by
Western nations, six refining sources said.
* Separately, the European Parliament on Tuesday formally approved a law to
effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the European Union
from 2035, aiming to speed up the switch to electric vehicles and combat climate
change.
Trades Bids Offers Prev. Sellers Buyers
(vol.) Trades
Ebob Barges $810 $826 Trafigu Vitol
MOC Platts ra
E5
(fob ARA)
<EUROBOB-ARA
>
Ebob Barges
E10
Platts(fob
ARA)
Ebob Barges $805.58 $816.50- Trafigu Shell
Argus E5(fob (3KT, $827.25 ra
AR) 1KT (8KT)
assesse
d)
Ebob Barges $811.42 $827.63 Shell Exxon
E10 Argus (3KT, (3kt,
(fob AR) 1KT 1.5kt
assesse assessed
d) )
March swap $802 $814
fob ARA
Premium $869-87 Petroin Gunvor
Unleaded 2 eos
(fob ARA)
<PU-10PP-ARA
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Cargoes
(fob MED)
Cargoes (cif
NWE)
Naphtha Mar Feb
(cif NWE) +$0-$ +$1.5 $7
Ebob crack (per barrel) $12.38 Prev. $13.46
Brent futures Rbob Rbob crack (Reporting by Rowena Edwards; Editing by Shailesh Kuber
)
