Europe Gasoline/Naphtha-Cracks slip again despite fall in crude

LONDON, Oct (Shenzhen: 000069.SZ - news) 28 (Reuters) - Gasoline refining margins in northwest Europe edged downwards on Friday for the third straight day despite crude oil prices that were headed for the biggest weekly fall in six weeks.

* Russian oil product exports from the Black Sea port of Tuapse in November will rise by 35.1 percent on a daily basis to 1.589 million tonnes from 1.215 million tonnes in October, traders said on Friday.

* PBF Energy Inc (NYSE: PBF - news) plans to increase product exports in the upcoming months to help reduce its exposure to the rising costs of meeting U.S. renewable fuel standards, its chief said on Friday.

* U.S. oil refiners are expected to have 1,129,000 bpd of capacity offline in the week to Oct. 28, increasing available refining capacity by 265,000 bpd from the previous week, data from research company IIR showed on Friday.

* Phillips 66 (Hamburg: 18376318.HM - news) says planned maintenance currently underway at its 336,000 bpd Wood River, Illinois Refinery.

* Monroe Energy planned to restart a 55,000 bpd fluid catalytic cracking unit at its Trainer, Pennsylvania refinery on Nov. 3, a source familiar with plant operations said.

* ARA gasoline stocks rose to 662,000 tonnes in the week to Thursday from 636,000 tonnes a week earlier, Dutch consultancy PJK International said.

* The arbitrage from Europe to the U.S. East Coast widened following Wednesday's EIA data that showed a larger than expected draw in gasoline stocks.

GASOLINE

* Gunvor sold to Total (LSE: 524773.L - news) a barge of benchmark Eurobob gasoline in the afternoon trading window at $490 a tonne fob ARA.

* Shell (LSE: RDSB.L - news) and NIC (NasdaqGS: EGOV - news) sold barges to Varo and Glencore (Xetra: A1JAGV - news) at $492-$494 a tonne. There were no trades outside the window on Thursday.

* Gunvor and Rolympus sold to Total two barges of premium unleaded gasoline at $514 a tonne fob ARA, down from $516 a tonne on Thursday.

* The November swap stood at around $490 a tonne at the close, a touch lower than $492 on Thursday.

* Gasoline barge refining margins stood at $9.52 a barrel, down from $10.01 a barrel.

* Brent crude oil futures for December delivery were 51 cents a barrel lower at $49.96 by 1545 GMT.

* U.S. November RBOB gasoline futures were trading 0.61 percent lower at $1.4781 a gallon.

* The U.S. gasoline crack (RB-CL1=R) traded at $11.16, down from $12.22 a tonne on Thursday..

NAPHTHA (NAF-C-NWE)

* No cargoes traded.

(Reporting by Sabina Zawadzki)