Roxar said some 68-million-kroner ($12.3 million)worth of its multi-phase subsea metres will eventually find their way into an unnamed country in West Africa, where ongoing sub-sea infrastructure-building is in full swing.

The supplier said Monday it was in receipt of a letter of intent for a first $2 million in sub-sea metres. The technology replaces topside metres on some fields to measure oil, gas and water well-stream.

Deliveries are set to begin in March 2009 and may be aimed at Total’s Pazflor project, where drilling continues in 2009. The metres are understood to be useful in determining maximum oil production and gas-handling capacity under test.

The first such metres appeared off Norway in 1996.

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