LONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - Northwest European gasoline refining margins held largely steady around $20.77 a barrel on Monday despite a large stock draw last week as crude oil also stayed roughly unchanged.
- A total of 4,000 metric tons of Eurobob E10 traded, and another 4,000 metric tons of E5 traded.
- European oil refinery output fell 4% in March from the previous month to 9.457 million barrels per day (bpd), but was nearly 1% higher than the same time last year, Euroilstock data showed on Monday.
- European gasoline stocks stood at 110 million barrels in March, up 4.8% from February and up 1.9% year on year, the data showed.
- Russia's weekly oil refining hit a near 11-month low due to flooding and a slowdown in repairs to plants that were hit by Ukrainian drone attacks, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.
- Gasoline stocks held in independent storage in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) refining and storage hub dropped by over 13% during the week to April 18, the lowest since early February, data from Dutch consultancy Insights Global showed.
- Gasoline stocks declined to 982,000 metric tons after strong exports to Brazil and Canada, Insights Global's Lars van Wageningen said.
Trade Bid Offer Prev. Buyer Seller Ebob $919-$9Barges 20 (4 MOC barges) Platts E5 (fob ARA)
Ebob Barges E10 Platts(fo b ARA) Ebob $902 $917 Trafigu Varo, Barges (4KT) (9KT) ra Totsa ArgusE5(fob AR)
Ebob $908.2 $915.25 Shell Varo Barges 5 (6KT) E10 Argus (4KT)(fob AR) May swap $906.5 $914.25 (fob ARA) 0
Premium $922 $934-$9 Unleaded 36 (5(fob ARA) barges)
Cargoes May +$6 May +$6 (fob MED) (fobAgioi Theodor ori) Cargoes May +$7(cif NWE) Naphtha (cif NWE)
Ebob crack (per barrel) $20.767 Prev. $20.738 Brent futures LCOc1 Rbob RBc1 Rbob crack RBc1-CLc1
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