UK-based Spectrum hopes to ­begin a major 2D seismic survey in the Turkish Black Sea this month.

BGP Marine’s Dong Fang Kan Tan No 1 vessel is understood to be en route to the eastern Black Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, via a stopover in the Canary Islands.

Neil Hodgson, head of Spectrum’s Mediterranean and Middle East multi-client business, told Upstream on the sidelines of a Geological Society event that the survey is expected to cover about 14,000 kilometres in the frontier eastern Black Sea basin.

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