BGP Marine has kicked off a 2-D multiclient survey offshore Cuba after signing a contract with Cuba-Petroleo Co., according to a news release.

Targeting the Cuba Economic Zone of the Gulf of Mexico, the project comprises 25,000 km of 2-D long-offset, high resolution, broadband seismic and gravity data. The acquisition is being carried out with the BGP Pioneer vessel, and the final data will be available to clients in fourth-quarter 2017, BGP said in the release. The bid round will be followed after the completion of the survey.

The underexplored offshore Cuba contains large areas of open acreage. The presence of an active hydrocarbon system is indicated by oil and gas shows in some of the wells, BGP said in the release.

The survey has been designed to acquire high quality data that will be fundamental in assisting the interpretation of the geology in the offshore Cuba, and the identification of prospective structural and stratigraphic trends that can be used for regional evaluation and future detailed seismic survey designs, BGP said.

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