OSLO, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Norwegian gas flows to Europe werebroadly steady on Thursday compared to the previous day, datafrom gas system operator Gassco showed. Gas flows to Europe as a whole were running at 336 millioncubic metres (mcm) per day by 1045 GMT compare with 336 mcmdelivered on Wednesday. Supplies via the Langeled pipeline, Britain's main subseagas import route, were running at 53 mcm/day, steady from theprevious day. Britain also imports gas from Norway via another twopipelines, Vesterled and FLAGS. 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 98 99 -1 Germany & Netherlands 145 145 0 France 49 50 -1 Belgium 44 44 0 Total 336 338 -2 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 2 Dec 1 NBP (UK) 18.27/38.00 18.51/38.25 TTF (Netherlands) 17.85 17.95 NCG (Germany) 17.85 18.20 Gaspool (Germany) 18.20 18.00 Zeebrugge (Belgium) 17.59 17.91 Peg Nord (France) 18.11 18.17 Trading Region South 20.06 20.57 (France) Oil-indexed prices* 20.79/24.89 20.79/24.89 NOTE: Prices are in euros per megawatt-hour (MWh), except forNBP (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 William Hardy)
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