* Norwegian gas exports total 345 mcm/day * Oseberg outage to reduce output slightly OSLO, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Norwegian natural gas exports rose on Friday onhigher deliveries to Germany, partly offset by a decrease in flows to Britain asa small outage hit output from the Oseberg field, data from gas system operatorGassco showed. The outage, which started at 0700 GMT, was expected to reduce Oseberg'soutput by 7.6 million cubic metres (mcm) per day and to last for about sevenhours on Friday, Gassco said on its website. Flows through the Vesterled pipeline, which delivers gas from Oseberg to StFergus terminal in Britain, were down by 6 mcm/day by 0900 GMT. Total flows to Europe, however, edged higher to close o full Norwegian gasproduction capacity, which stood at around 350 mcm per day, according to theanalysts at Thomson Reuters Point Carbon. 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 122 128 -6 Germany & Netherlands 127 116 11 France 52 52 0 Belgium 44 44 0 Total 345 340 5 NOTE: Pipeline gas export figures are based on gas fed into the system at acertain time and calculated as a daily average. Levels can vary throughout theday as producers adjust the amount of gas they export, according to changingnominations, or orders, from customers. Following is a summary of spot price settlements at European gas tradinghubs: Gas hub Dec 4 Dec 3 NBP (UK) 24.2/56.0 24.7/56.9 TTF (Netherlands) 23.4 23.9 NCG (Germany) 23.4 23.9 Gaspool (Germany) 23.4 24.0 Zeebrugge (Belgium) 23.5 24.1 Peg Nord (France) 23.6 24.0 Peg Sud (France) 23.5 24.1 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 ReutersPoint Carbon. * The oil-indexed prices mentioned above are in order: Russia spot-indexedgas/Russian oil-linked discounted gas/Russian outright oil-indexed gas. (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, editing by William Hardy)
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