U.S. crude, RBOB gasoline up on fire, Earl threat

NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil and RBOB gasoline futures prices rose on Thursday, lifted by Hurricane Earl's possible impact on East Coast refineries and by reports of an oil facility fire in the Gulf of Mexico.

On the New York Mercantile Exchange, October crude <CLV0> rose 55 cents, or 0.74 percent, to $74.46 a barrel by 12:47 p.m. EDT (1647 GMT), trading from $73.11 to $74.68.

October RBOB <RBV0> gasoline futures rose 2.49 cents, or 1.32 percent, to $1.9140 a gallon, trading from $1.8737 to $1.9195. (Reporting by Robert Gibbons; Editing by David Gregorio)