Additionally, the contracts allow for the provision of other products and services, including multilateral completions, expandable completion systems and zonal isolation and control systems.

Work is scheduled to begin in September 2008 and will last up to nine years if all option periods are exercised.

David King, president of Halliburton’s completion and production division, said: This project entails some of the most challenging well environments in the world, and StatoilHydro is entrusting entire fields to our technologies and services.