EUROPE GAS-Prices mostly ease amid comfortable supply

Aug 4 (Reuters) - Dutch and British wholesale gas prices were mostly a touch weaker on Monday morning amid steady Norwegian gas supply, current high wind output limiting gas demand in the power sector and a gas storages continue to fill.

The benchmark Dutch front-month contract at the TTF hub TRNLTTFMc1 eased 0.25 euro to 33.70 euros per megawatt hour (MWh), or $11.41/mmBtu, at 0842 GMT, LSEG data showed.

The Dutch day-ahead contract TRNLTTFD1 was down 0.30 euro at 33.20 euros/MWh.

The British day-ahead contract TRGBNBPD1 was up 1.05 pence at 81.00 pence per therm.

The supply picture remains comfortable, with Norwegian exports stable and no major new outages reported, LSEG analyst Oleh Skrynyk said.

Wind generation, too, is still strong, suppressing gas for power demand, he added.

Norwegian pipeline gas exports to Europe stood at 339.4 million cubic metres (mcm) per day, data from infrastructure operator Gassco showed.

Norway's Hammerfest LNG terminal, Europe's largest natural gas export facility, also restarted on Sunday after more than three months of maintenance.

Peak wind power generation in Britain is forecast to remain at a high 18.9 gigawatss (GW) both on Monday and Tuesday, Elexon data showed.

However, the second half of the week will see rising pressure over the continent, leading to warmer and less active weather than recently, LSEG meteorologist Georg Muller said.

For now, strong gas supply to the UK and continental Europe allow for injections into storage in preparation for winter, analysts at Northern Gas and Power said in their morning briefing.

Europe's gas storage sites are 69.2% full, latest data from Gas Infrastructure Europe shows.

In the European carbon market, the benchmark contract CFI2Zc1 was down by 0.70 euros at 70.37 euros a metric ton.