Reef Subsea says that one of its Norwegian subsidiaries, Reef Subsea Norway, has been awarded a major contract by Statoil for the full seismic system installation of the Grane field offshore Norway. The contract - worth over 200MNOK (over £22M) - will see all capabilities of the Reef Subsea Group called on: Subsea construction, Trenching and Dredging & Excavation. The duration of the project will run over 2013 and 2014, with engineering work commencing immediately.

The scope of work includes all activities necessary for the installation of the Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM) system for the Grane field. This comprises the Project Management for the entire project including: engineering, logistics and material supply, mobilisation/demobilisation, and the installation of an umbilical riser, Sensor Array Terminators, Sensor Array Cables and Sensor Array Terminator Lead-in cables and associated protection structures.

There are almost 200km of seismic cables to be installed and buried and the System will have a receiver area of approximately 50km2 when completed in a water depth of around 130m. The purpose of the project is to facilitate Increased Oil Recovery (IOR) for the Grane field, located 185km of Haugesund. Grane is the first field on the Norwegian continental shelf to produce heavy crude oil.

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