* Pipeline gas flows to Europe at 331 mcm/day * Aasgard outage expected to extend into Thursday OSLO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Norwegian gas flows to Europe werebroadly steady on Wednesday as a small rise in deliveries toGermany was offset by a fall to France, data from gas systemoperator Gassco showed. Gas flows to Europe were running at 331 million cubic metres(mcm) per day by 1400 GMT, unchanged from the volumes deliveredthe previous day. An ongoing outage at the Aasgard field cut productioncapacity by 10.5 mcm per day on Wednesday, and was expected tolast till Thursday, with the volume impact rising to 11.3 mcm. In addition, Norway's leading gas producer Statoil said it expected its production capacity to be reduced by 25mcm/day on Thursday due to problems at the Heimdal riserplatform, which helps to ship gas from the Oseberg field to StFergus terminal in Scotland. Norway has total gas pipeline capacity of about 350 mcm perday. 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 87 88 -1 Germany & Netherlands 143 137 6 France 47 52 -5 Belgium 44 44 0 Total 321 321 0 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 Nov 3 Nov 2 NBP (UK) 17.65/36.80 17.74/37.15 TTF (Netherlands) 17.50 17.70 NCG (Germany) 17.75 18.33 Gaspool (Germany) 17.90 18.00 Zeebrugge (Belgium) 17.34 17.50 Peg Nord (France) 17.82 18.53 Trading Region South 18.36 18.01 (France) Oil-indexed prices* 20.70/25.18 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 David Evans)
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