Wintershall said on Thursday that the two templates for the three-way subsea tieback project have been installed in 300 metres of water on Haltenbanken.

</preform><p >With subsea templates now in place, Wintershall's first operated project off Norway is on schedule for planned first oil by the end of 2018. </p><p >"This is the first major subsea installation on the Maria field, unlocking the next phase in the development," Wintershall's Maria project director Hugo Dijkgraaf said.