CNOOC will start commissioning the Hai yang shi you 201 early next year and plans to put it into operation in the second half of 2011 at one of its self-financed fields in the South China Sea.

This is part of a warm-up ¿exercise before taking on deep-water pipelay service duties at Husky Energy’s Liwan 3-1 gas field in the South China Sea, sources said.

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