OSLO: Natural gas exports from western Europe’s top gas supplier, Norway, rose on Thursday morning from the previous day on higher deliveries to Germany, partly offset by a drop to Belgium.
Total pipeline flows were running at 209 million cubic metres (mcm) per day by 0600 GMT, up 8 mcm from Wednesday, data from gas system operator Gassco showed. Norway’s gas production capacity is expected to be reduced by 120 mcm/day until April 28 due to ongoing maintenance at the country’s biggest gas field Troll.
Norway has a total pipeline gas production capacity of more than 350 mcm/day, meaning that the system still had a spare capacity despite Troll’s maintenance.
The following table shows Norwegian gas pipeline flows measured in mcm/day and compared with the previous session’s delivered volumes: Destination Real time Pvs business Change day (mcm) Britain 59 57 2 Germany & Netherlands 106 93 13 France 20 21 -1 Belgium 24 30 -6 Total 209 201 8 NOTE: Real-time gas export figures are based on gas fed into the system at a certain time and calculated as a daily average.
Levels can vary throughout the day as producers adjust the amount of gas they export, according to changing nominations, or orders, from customers.
Volumes for the previous business day show delivered gas. Following is a summary of spot price settlements at European gas trading hubs:
Gas hub April 15 April 14 NBP (UK) 22.4/47.3 22.1/46.8 TTF (Netherlands) 22.2 22.4 NCG (Germany) 22.2 22.4 Gaspool (Germany) 22.0 21.7 Zeebrugge (Belgium) 22.1 21.6 Peg Nord (France) 22.0 21.9 Peg Sud (France) 22.0 21.8 Oil-indexed prices* 22.97/28.65 22.97/28.65 NOTE: Prices are in euros per megawatt-hour (MWh), except for NBP (euros/MWh & p/th). *
