The work carried out this summer entailed installation and connection of the lines together with spools to subsea templates and umbilicals installed at the field last year.
Watch a time-lapse video of the installation work here:
</p><p >The spar facility – the world’s largest such unit and the first to be deployed off Norway – is being built at South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries and is due for installation in early 2018, ready for start-up in the second half of that year after a delay of about one year to the original schedule due mainly to fabrication issues.</p><p