Singapore-based seismic player Nordic Maritime has been awarded a $23.5 million contract by Cairn India to shoot a 3D survey off India’s east coast.

The contractor intends to kick off the 1000 square-kilometre survey near Nizamapatnam Bay off Andhra Pradesh province later this month and will also carry out acquisition of gravity and magnetic data.

Nordic will deploy its eight-streamer seismic vessel Vyacheslav Tikhonov for the shoot, which is expected to take about three months.