DOW JONES NEWSWIRES 

Statoil Friday said it has awarded two contracts to Subsea 7, worth about $90 million in total.

   MAIN FACTS: 

- The contracts are EPCI contracts, including engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the pipelines and control cables connecting the PanPandora and Katla fields in the North Sea to existing production systems.

- The contracts also cover installation of the production system on the seabed.

- They are the first contracts signed by Statoil for delivery of subsea pipes to the new portfolio of fast-track developments.

- Field installation and pipe-laying are scheduled for the first half of 2012.

- Production from PanPandora and Katla is to start later the same year.

-By Stockholm Bureau, Dow Jones Newswires; +46-8-5451-3090; djnews.stockholm@dowjones.com