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Aker Solutions won a contract to provide umbilicals for the Statoil-operated Johan Sverdrup, Utgard and Bauge developments offshore Norway. The contract requires delivery of more than 40 kilometers in total of subsea umbilicals. It will be booked in the fourth quarter. Bauge, 16 km northeast of Njord, will have expected investments of 4.1 billion kroner. Plans include the drilling of two production wells and one injection well, a pipeline to Njord A, and an umbilical from the subsea Hyme field. The Bauge field development concept includes one subsea template, two oil producers and one water inject. The discovery is located some 16 kilometres north-east of the selected tie-in platform, Njord A The development concept includes one subsea template, two oil producers, one water injector Reserves: 73 million oil equivalent Capital expenditures: NOK 4.1 billion. The Bauge field is planned to be developed as a tie-back to the Njord A platform, with first production expected in 2020. The estimated cost of developing the field is NOK4.1bn ($482m). Statoil will deploy its next-generation Cap-X subsea production system for the first time at the Bauge field. The production system will include one subsea template, two oil production wells and one water injector. Hydrocarbons recovered from the field will be transferred to the Njord A platform. Tie-in of the Bauge field is expected to prolong the life of the Njord field by approximately three years. Statoil is upgrading the Njord infrastructure at a cost of NOK15.7bn ($1.82m) as part of the Njord Future project. The upgrade will extend the life of the infrastructure by another 20 years and facilitate the development of new and satellite fields in the area, including Bauge.