NORWAY GAS-Flows ease to France, Britain as maintenance starts

* Norway's gas exports amount to 277 mcm/day

* Vesterled pipeline flows to UK shut due to maintenance

OSLO, April 22 (Reuters) - Norwegian gas exports eased to

France and Britain on Tuesday morning (Frankfurt: TDM.F - news) compared with the average

flows seen before the Easter holiday, data from gas system

operator Gassco showed.

Due to maintenance at the Heimdal Riser platform, a gas

transportation hub in the North Sea, flows via the Vesterled

pipeline to Britain were shut on Tuesday until May 19.

A separate gas field maintenance of the same duration was

expected to reduce Norwegian gas output by 30 million cubic

metres (mcm) per day, Gassco said on its website.

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 46 54 -8

Germany & Netherlands 145 146 -1

France 43 51 -8

Belgium 43 41 2

Total (NYSE: TOT - news) 277 292 -15

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 17 April 16

NBP (UK) 20.7/49.8 21.3/51.3

TTF (Netherlands) 20.6 21.1

NCG (Shenzhen: 300336.SZ - news) (Germany) 21.2 22.0

Gaspool (Germany) 21.5 21.9

Zeebrugge (Belgium) 20.6 21.2

Peg Nord (France) 21.7 22.4

Peg Sud (France) 24.4 24.6

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)