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Nordic Maritime wins offshore seismic contract

Oilfield Technology,


Offshore specialist Nordic Maritime has been awarded a contract worth US$ 23.5 million to provide 3D marine seismic data acquisition and processing services off the cost of Andhra Pradesh, India.

SCF collaboration

Nordic Maritime will provide the services to Cairn India Limited, and will commence work later in March. The company will collaborate with SCF Geo of Russia, and the contract will feature SCF’s seismic survey vessel Vyacheslav Tikhonov.

The Vyacheslav Tikhonov vessel will survey approximately 1000 km2 of ocean bed. The project will also include the acquisition of gravity and magnetic data alongside the seismic data near Nizamapatnam Bay.

The Vyacheslav Tikhonov was built in 2011 and is operated by SCF GEO, based in St Petersburg. To support the 3D data acquisition programme, Nordic and SCF Geo will charter and mobilise a supply ship and 10 chase vessels locally from Indian owners.

Seismic survey vessel

The vessel is an 8-streamer seismic survey vessel, based on the X-bow Ulstein design from Norway.

Nordic Maritime confirmed that the project will commence on 15th March and will last three months.

Comments

Nordic Maritime’s CEO, Kjell Gauksheim, commented: “This award from Cairn Energy for work offshore India is naturally exciting for Nordic and our partners. We are pleased to be entrusted with it and we will perform as always to our established high standards. We believe there are more opportunities like this in the region and we are open to more contracts of this sort in future.”

Adapted from press release by Katie Woodward

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