IKM Subsea has delivered first equipment for Snorre B and Visund fields under the ROV services contract that the company secured last August.

The contract is for the provision of testing and installation of an electrical, permanently seabed installed Residential - ROV (RROV), that will interface with IKMS’s Onshore Control Center.

“We are pleased to announce that we have reached a stage where the first equipment for Snorre B and Visund is now complete and mobilization to the field has started. The complete package will be in place by Q2 2017. The system has been thoroughly tested in a newly installed test tank located at Bryne in Norway. The Onshore Control Center is also in construction at Bryne and the whole system is prepared to be completed by Q2 2017,” said Jan Vegard Hestnes, operations director at IKM Subsea.

The company will be using its Merlin ultra compact vehicle (UCV) work class ROV and new technology to supply the residential capacity and communication links needed to support the project.

The RROV is capable of continuous subsea operations as required, while IKM, Statoil and 3’rd party suppliers maintain continuous, uninterrupted control from the Onshore Control Center at Bryne.