Nov 27 (Reuters) - Norwegian gas flows to Europe increasedon Friday following the end of an unplanned outage at thecountry's Kollsnes gas processing plant, data from gas systemoperator Gassco showed. Gas flows to Europe as a whole were running at 345 millioncubic metres (mcm) per day by around 0815 GMT, up 19 mcm fromvolumes delivered on Thursday. A partial outage at the Kollsnes facility, which had reducedprocessing capacity by 26.5 mcm on Thursday, ended at 0600 GMT,pushing up exports. But an ongoing partial outage at the Kvitbejoern gas fieldwas still constraining Norwegian flows, analysts at ThomsonReuters Point Carbon 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 100 88 12 Germany & Netherlands 149 142 7 France 53 51 2 Belgium 43 45 -2 Total 345 326 19 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 26 Nov 25 NBP (UK) 18.41/37.90 18.21/37.50 TTF (Netherlands) 17.70 17.88 NCG (Germany) 18.05 18.27 Gaspool (Germany) 18.00 18.00 Zeebrugge (Belgium) 17.82 17.66 Peg Nord (France) 18.29 18.34 Trading Region South 18.98 19.03 (France) Oil-indexed prices* 20.70/25.18 20.70/25.18 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 Oleg Vukmanovic in Milan; Editing by GregMahlich)
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