EUROPE GAS-Prices ease on muted demand, stockbuild

Aug 7 (Reuters) - Dutch and British wholesale gas prices weakened on Thursday morning amid stable supply and low demand in the power sector, while gas storage filling continued.

The benchmark Dutch front-month contract at the TTF hub TRNLTTFMc1 was down 0.23 euro at 32.97 euros per megawatt hour (MWh) or $11.35/mmBtu, by 0841 GMT, LSEG data showed.

In earlier trade, the contract went as low as 32.82 euros/MWh, a level last seen on July 28.

The Dutch October contract TRNLTTFMc2 was down 0.47 euro at 33.53 euros/MWh.

The British front-month gas price TRGBNBPMc1 was down 0.25 pence at 81.65 pence per therm.

Further in, the Dutch day-ahead contract TRNLTTFD1 traded 0.35 euro lower at 32.30 euros/MWh, and the British equivalent TRGBNBPD1 was down 0.55 pence at 78.25 p/therm.

"Demand in Northern Europe is rather low right now due to mild and windy summer weather and although temperatures look set to rise from the end of the week, Europe is still refilling gas storages," Karsten Sander Nielsen, senior market analyst at Mind Energy said.

Europe's gas storage sites are 70.35% full, the latest data from Gas Infrastructure Europe shows.

While this is still significantly lower than at the same time last year, it nonetheless marked a rapid improvement from levels seen only a month ago, Nielsen said.

German gas company SEFE said on Wednesday it had allocated three terawatt hours (TWh) of natural gas storage space at its northern German Rehden facility, the entire working gas volume it had offered at an auction.

Meanwhile, supplies from Norway are stable, with 341 million cubic metres (mcm) per day nominated on Thursday, data from infrastructure operator Gassco showed.

Gas also continues to flow through the Orlovka interconnector in southern Ukraine which was attacked by Russian drones on Wednesday, the Ukrainian gas transmission operator said.

In the European carbon market, the benchmark contract CFI2Zc1 was down 0.23 euro at 70.76 euros a metric ton.