OSLO, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Norwegian gas flows to Britain roseon Monday, as the country ramped up production over the weekendfollowing the end of several outages, data from gas systemoperator Gassco showed. Gas flows to Europe were running at 349 million cubic metres(mcm) per day by 1430 GMT, up 18 mcm from volumes delivered onFriday. Unexpected outages affecting production at Norway's gasprocessing plant Kollsnes and gas field Troll ended on Fridayafternoon, data from Gassco showed. Output from another gas processing plant, Kaarstoe, wasreduced by 5 mcm/day on Monday, Gassco said. 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 106 90 16 Germany & Netherlands 147 143 4 France 53 54 -1 Belgium 43 44 -1 Total 349 331 18 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 Dec 11 Dec 10 NBP (UK) 16.17/35.50 17.19/36.35 TTF (Netherlands) 16.23 17.19 NCG (Germany) 16.35 16.50 Gaspool (Germany) 16.55 17.00 Zeebrugge (Belgium) 16.30 16.42 Peg Nord (France) 16.68 17.05 Trading Region South 18.49 18.35 (France) Oil-indexed prices* 20.79/24.89 20.79/24.89 NOTE: Prices are in euros per megawatt-hour (MWh), exceptfor NBP (euros/MWh & p/th). * - The oil-indexed prices are in order of Point Carbon'sbest estimate for Russian gas, including spot indexation andbase price discounts, and an estimate for Russian outrightoil-indexed gas. (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis; Editing by David Holmes)
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