OSLO, March 7 (Reuters) - BASF's oil and gassubsidiary Wintershall, which plans to merge with Russian-ownedGerman peer DEA, said on Wednesday:
** Expects to submit a plan for the development of its Nova(formerly known as Skarfjell) field in the Norwegian Sea duringthe first half of 2018
** Wintershall has 35 percent stake in the license,Capricorn Norge AS, a part of Cairn Energy PLC 20 percent,Spirit Energy 20 percent, Edison 15 percentand DEA 10 percent
** Plans to invest more than two billion euros ($2.49billion) in exploration and field development off Norway from2017 to 2020
** The company's daily output from Norway amounts to about100,000 barrels of oil equivalent, and will increase whenproduction starts at the Aasta Hansteen gas field by end-2018.Wintershall has a 24 percent stake in the Statoil-operatedArctic gas field($1 = 0.8042 euros)(Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, editing by Terje Solsvik)