EnergyMan2000,

Here is the most recent example: UK NBP gas prices surge on Norwegian supply drop, oil jump
. The next item is a Platts article that does not exist any more, from 13 July 2007. I have copied this from the ODAC newsletter where I first reported it:

UK NBP gas prices climb further as low Norwegian flows continue (Platts, Fri 13 Jul)

http://www.platts.com/Natural%20Gas/News/8155966.xml?p=Natural%20Gas/New...

Comment: You have to wonder what sort of agreement / contract the UK has with the Norwegians where they can export to the UK any amount of gas they like, including, it seems, none.

Article: UK gas prices at the National Balancing Point climbed further Friday as flows from Norway stayed at low levels and the market remained nervous over price volatility, traders said.

... Part of the tightness was due to the continued unplanned outage at BP's CATS pipeline, which has been offline for almost two weeks now. A BP spokesman said Thursday was still no news on the situation, and that the company's earlier assessment that the outage would likely take weeks still stood.

Traders Friday said it was unclear whether the outage would indeed only take weeks or in fact several months, with the former now seen as a bearish outcome in comparison.

... Flows from Norway were negligible, as they had been since Wednesday. The Langeled pipeline was flowing at about 5 million cu m/d, having dropped to zero overnight and jumping a notch during the morning. The pipeline had flowed at about twice that level earlier in the week, and as much as 10 times the level in the previous week.

Norwegian producers said Thursday that low flows were not due to an field or infrastructure outages, planned or unplanned, and instead blamed relatively low UK demand.

But traders expressed incredulity at these statements, with one saying Friday: "People are edgy now because they don't know how Norway will flow. I don't believe that it's because of low UK demand, that doesn't make any sense." He added that the Norwegian flow rates over the past few months had made the market "untradeable."...

Doug