* Exports to Europe total 272 mcm/day * Maintenance reduces capacity by 51 mcm/day * Flows to Britain fall by 32 mcm/day OSLO, July 6 (Reuters) - Norwegian pipeline gas exports toBritain fell sharply on Monday from last Friday, data from gassystem operator Gassco showed, due to what analysts said wasplanned maintenance at Troll, the country's biggest gas field. Pipeline gas supplies to Europe were running at 272 millioncubic metres per day (mcm/day) at around 0715 GMT, down 43 mcmfrom volumes delivered on Friday. Norway's gas production capacity has been reduced by 51mcm/day due to gas field maintenance that started on July 4. Thereduction is expected to last until July 23. While Gassco did not disclose the name of the field,analysts at Thomson Reuters Point Carbon said the impact volumeindicates the maintenance is taking place at Troll. The following table shows Norwegian gas pipeline flowsmeasured in mcm/day and changes from the previous session'sdelivered volumes: Destination Real time Pvs business Change day (mcm) Britain 56 88 -32 Germany & Netherlands 139 143 -4 France 39 40 -1 Belgium 38 44 -6 Total 272 315 -43 NOTE: Real-time gas export figures are based on gas fed intothe system at a certain time and calculated as a daily average. Levels can vary throughout the day as producers adjust theamount of gas they export, according to changing nominations, ororders, from customers. Volumes for the previous business day show delivered gas. Following is a summary of spot price settlements at Europeangas trading hubs: Gas hub July 3 July 2 NBP (UK) 20.8/43.5 20.6/43.0 TTF (Netherlands) 20.9 20.9 NCG (Germany) 21.1 21.1 Gaspool (Germany) 21.0 21.1 Zeebrugge (Belgium) 20.7 21.1 Peg Nord (France) 20.9 20.7 Trading Region South 21.4 21.6 (France) Oil-indexed prices* 20.87/26.56 20.87/26.56 NOTE: Prices are in euros per megawatt-hour (MWh), except forNBP (euros/MWh & p/th). * - The oil-indexed prices are in order: Point Carbon's bestestimate for Russian gas, including spot indexation and baseprice discounts, and an estimate for Russian outrightoil-indexed gas. (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis; editing by Jason Neely)
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