NORWAY GAS-Flows to Britain fall as more gas goes to France

* Norway's pipeline gas exports total 254 mcm/day * Statoil adds new compressor at Kvitebjorn field OSLO, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Norway's pipeline gas exports to Britain fellsharply from last Friday's average as deliveries were diverted to France aheadof planned maintenance at Dunkirk terminal, data from gas system operator Gasscoshowed. Flows through the Langeled pipeline, Britain's main subsea gas import route,were down to 25 million cubic metres (mcm) per day from 34 mcm/day on Friday. "We expect Langeled flows to remain at these levels towards end ofSeptember. Potentially, there could be a small increases on Sep. 23 as Dunkirkterminal goes into a one-day maintenance and Sep. 25 which marks the end of theongoing maintenance at Kollsnes and Troll gas field," analysts at ThomsonReuters Point Carbon said. Norway's Statoil said on Monday it had installed a new compressorat Kvitebjoern field to increase gas and condensate output by about 220 millionbarrels of oil equivalent, equivalent to an output from a medium-sized field,and to prolong the field's lifetime to 2035 from 2027. Kvitebjorn delivers gas to the Kollsnes gas processing plant which sends itto customers in Britain and continental Europe. The following table shows Norwegian pipeline gas flows, measured in millioncubic metres/day, compared with the previous session's average: Destination Real time Pvs session Change average (mcm) Britain 35 57 -22 Germany & Netherlands 137 132 5 France 38 24 14 Belgium 43 44 -1 Total 253 257 -4 NOTE: Pipeline gas export figures are based on gas fed into the system at acertain time and calculated as a daily average. Levels can vary throughout theday as producers adjust the amount of gas they export, according to changingnominations, or orders, from customers. Following is a summary of spot price settlements at European gas tradinghubs: Gas hub Sept 19 Sept 18 NBP (UK) 21.4/49.3 21.3/49.2 TTF (Netherlands) 20.8 21.4 NCG (Germany) 20.8 21.8 Gaspool (Germany) 20.6 21.5 Zeebrugge (Belgium) 20.9 21.3 Peg Nord (France) 22.8 22.1 Peg Sud (France) 29.2 28.4 Oil-indexed prices* 28.31/30.29/33.66 28.31/30.29/33.66 NOTE: Prices are in euros per megawatt-hour, except for NBP (euros/MWh & p/th).The oil-indexed price for Russian gas is an estimate by Thomson Reuters PointCarbon. * The oil-indexed prices mentioned above are in order: Russia spot-indexedgas/Russian oil-linked discounted gas/Russian outright oil-indexed gas. (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis; editing by Susan Thomas)