* Gasoline stocks held in independent storage in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage area rose by 6%, data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed on Thursday.
* Exports to the U.S. were lower and there were high flows of naphtha into the gasoline blending pool, said Insights Global's Lars van Wageningen.
* A drop in U.S. gasoline stocks this week means a surge of product is expected to move across the Atlantic, Insights Global added.
* Industrial action disrupting French refineries, LNG terminals, power supply and reactor maintenance stretched into a 16th day on Thursday as protests against the government's forced pension plan reform continue.
* U.S. gasoline stocks fell by 6.4 million barrels to 229.6 million barrels last week, Energy Information Administration data showed on Wednesday.
* That compared with expectations of a 1.7 million barrel drop in a Reuters poll of analysts.?
* Goldman Sachs on Thursday reiterated its bullish view on commodities as a banking crisis has yet to spill over into physical markets.
* Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said a previously announced cut of 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) in Russia's oil production would be from an output level of 10.2 million bpd in February, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
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Ebob crack (per barrel) $15.416 Prev. $14.017
Brent futures Rbob Rbob crack (Reporting by Noah Browning;Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)
