NORWAY GAS-Flows to Britain ease slightly

* Norwegian gas exports total 339 mcm/day

* Supplies to Britain at 102 mcm/day

OSLO, March 18 (Reuters) - Norwegian gas exports to Europe

eased slightly on Wednesday from the previous day's average on

lower deliveries to Britain, data from gas system operator

Gassco showed.

Pipeline gas flows from Norway to Europe were running at 339

million cubic metres (mcm) per day by 0840 GMT, down 4 mcm/day

down from Tuesday, and off this year's daily peak of 357 mcm/day

hit in February.

An ongoing outage at the Gudrun field reducing output by 5.7

mcm/day is expected to last until March 24.

Norway's Statoil (Xetra: 675213 - news) has discovered more gas near the

Aasta Hansteen field which is expected to start production in

the fourth quarter of 2017, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate

said.

The field in the Norwegian Sea will deliver gas to the

onshore Nyhamna plant.

The following table shows Norwegian pipeline gas flows,

measured in mcm/day, compared with the previous session's

average:

Destination Real time Pvs business Change

day (mcm)

Britain 102 106 -4

Germany & Netherlands 141 140 1

France 54 53 1

Belgium 42 44 -2

Total (Swiss: FP.SW - news) 339 343 -4

NOTE: Real-time gas export figures are based on gas fed into the

system at a certain time and calculated as a daily average.

Levels can vary throughout the day as producers adjust the

amount of gas they export, according to changing nominations, or

orders, from customers.

Volumes for the previous business day show delivered gas.

Following is a summary of spot price settlements at European

gas trading hubs:

Gas hub March 17 March 16

NBP (Shanghai: 601018.SS - news) (UK) 22.2/46.7 22.4/46.8

TTF (Netherlands) 21.3 21.4

NCG (Shenzhen: 300336.SZ - news) (Germany) 21.2 21.7

Gaspool (Germany) 21.1 21.5

Zeebrugge (Belgium) 21.4 21.8

Peg Nord (France) 21.4 21.9

Peg Sud (France) 22.0 22.2

Oil-indexed prices* 24.01/29.81 24.01/29.81

NOTE: Prices are in euros per megawatt-hour (MWh), except for

NBP (euros/MWh & p/th). The oil-indexed price for Russian gas is

an estimate by Thomson Reuters Point Carbon.

* The oil-indexed prices mentioned above for March are in

order: Point Carbon's best estimate for Russian gas, including

spot indexation and base price discounts, and for Russian

outright oil-indexed gas.

(Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis; editing by Jason Neely)