A quarter of a billion dollars in development contracts puts the Nova field in the Norwegian waters of the North Sea closer to production, Wintershall said. The Norwegian subsidiary of the German energy company said it awarded services companies Aker Solutions and Subsea 7 with contracts that combine for a value of $230 million. The contracts call for the production of subsea infrastructure and pipelines associated with the Nova field, formerly known as Skarfjell, which will be tied into the nearby Gjøa platform in the North Sea. “These contracts allow us to push towards the execution phase of the project and build on our strategy of cost-effectively developing fields that utilize local infrastructure,” Andre Hesse, the head of the project for the Wintershall […]