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NORWAY GAS-Flows to continent high as Germany sends gas to Ukraine

* Flows to Germany at winter season levels

* RWE (Xetra: RWE.DE - news) starts delivering gas to Ukraine via Poland

* Langeled flows to UK down to 23 mcm/day

OSLO, April 15 (Reuters) - Norwegian gas exports to

continental Europe were steady on Tuesday morning (Frankfurt: TDM.F - news) after rising

the previous day to winter levels as Germany started exporting

gas to Ukraine via Poland.

Meanwhile, deliveries to Britain fell back to the levels

seen around the beginning of April, with flows through the

Langeled pipeline running at a rate of 23 million cubic metres

(mcm) per day.

"The political situation in Ukraine remains a concern for

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the market, though there has been no disruption to Russian flows

to date," said Oliver Sanderson, a gas market analyst at Thomson

Reuters Point Carbon.

Germany's RWE said on Tuesday it began deliveries

of natural gas to Ukraine via Poland on Tuesday, reverting some

Russian gas, and also including gas from the European Union and

Norway.

The following table shows Norwegian pipeline gas flows

measured in million cubic metres per day compared with the

previous day's closing level:

Destination Real time Pvs session Change(m

cm)

Britain 50 75 -25

Germany & Netherlands 141 141 0

France 45 45 0

Belgium 45 43 2

Total (NYSE: TOT - news) 281 304 -23

NOTE (Stockholm: NOTE.ST - news) : Pipeline 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.

Following is a summary of spot price settlements at European

gas trading hubs:

Gas hub April 14 April 11

NBP (UK) 22.0/53.2 21.4/52.0

TTF (Netherlands) 21.7 20.8

NCG (Shenzhen: 300336.SZ - news) (Germany) 22.4 21.5

Gaspool (Germany) 22.2 21.8

Zeebrugge (Belgium) 22.0 21.2

Peg Nord (France) 22.5 21.4

Peg Sud (France) 24.5 23.8

Oil-indexed prices* 29.24/30.97/34.41 29.46/30.97/34.41

NOTE: Prices are in euros per megawatt-hour, 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 are in order: Russia

spot-indexed gas/Russian oil-linked discounted gas/Russian

outright oil-indexed gas.

(Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis; Editing by Mark Potter)