OSLO, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Norwegian gas flows to Britain fellon Thursday on a planned gas field maintenance, data from gassystem operator Gassco showed. Gas flows to Europe were running at 326 million cubic metres(mcm) per day by 1300 GMT, down 9 mcm from the volumes deliveredon Wednesday. A planned maintenance at a gas field offshore Norway wasexpected to reduce production capacity by 30 mcm per day untilOct. 31. Norway has a total pipeline gas production capacity of about350 mcm of gas per day. The following table shows Norwegian gas pipeline flows,measured in mcm/day, and changes from the previous session'sdelivered volumes: Destination Real time Pvs business Change day (mcm) Britain 84 94 -10 Germany & Netherlands 147 144 3 France 50 53 -3 Belgium 45 44 1 Total 326 335 -9 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 Oct 28 Oct 27 NBP (UK) 18.45/38.70 18.21/38.55 TTF (Netherlands) 18.00 17.98 NCG (Germany) 18.30 18.35 Gaspool (Germany) 18.15 18.30 Zeebrugge (Belgium) 18.17 17.89 Peg Nord (France) 18.99 19.00 Trading Region South 18.63 18.63 (France) Oil-indexed prices* 20.80/25.39 20.80/25.39 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 Tom Heneghan)
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