SBM Offshore, which built the field’s mobile offshore production and storage unit, said Yme is facing major hook-up and commissioning challenges.

Yme, which is more than three years behind schedule, had been due to begin producing late in the second quarter but that date is now in jeopardy.

Monaco-based SBM blames Talisman for many of Yme’s problems in what appears to be an increasingly acrimonious relationship between the two.

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