NORWAY GAS-Flows rise to Britain
* Norwegian gas exports total 340 mcm/day
* Flows to Britain rise to 114 mcm/day
OSLO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Norwegian gas exports to Britain
rose slightly on Friday from the previous day's average with the
return of production following an unexpected outage at the
Oserberg field, data from gas system operator Gassco showed.
The outage at the Statoil (Xetra: 675213 - news) -operated offshore field
was over by Friday morning.
The following table shows Norwegian pipeline gas flows,
measured by mcm/day, compared with the previous session's
average:
Destination Real time Pvs session Change
average (mcm)
Britain 114 108 6
Germany & Netherlands 136 140 -4
France 47 44 3
Belgium 43 43 0
Total 340 335 5
NOTE: 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 Dec 18 Dec 17
NBP (UK) 23.0/53.0 22.8/53.0
TTF (Netherlands) 22.2 22.4
NCG (Germany) 22.4 22.2
Gaspool (Germany) 22.4 22.5
Zeebrugge (Belgium) 22.4 22.4
Peg Nord (France) 22.4 22.2
Peg Sud (France) 22.4 22.2
Oil-indexed prices* 28.69/29.89/33.21 28.69/29.89/33.21
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 are in order:
Russia spot-indexed gas/Russian oil-linked discounted
gas/Russian outright oil-indexed gas.
(Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis; editing by Jason Neely)