Following sailaway from the Dragados Offshore yard in Cadiz, Spain, on 10 August, the Mariner jacket recently spent a week in the sheltered Boknafjord near Stavanger, waiting for the arrival of the heavy-lift vessel Saipem 7000 to carry out the installation.

In the early hours of Sunday 30 August the Skandi Iceman vessel, towing the S44 barge carrying the jacket, and the heavy-lift vessel were in place in the Mariner field, about 150 kilometres east of Shetland.