About Us
Our Mission
To bring new life and value to our client’s subsurface data.
Unleash Your Data’s Potential
Katalyst Data Management® provides the only integrated, end-to-end subsurface data management solution for the oil and gas industry. Our employees operate in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America and are dedicated to optimizing the value of subsurface data, including seismic and well data. Katalyst enables clients’ digital transformation of E&P data with digitizing services and digital transformation consulting.
UnleashYour Data’s Potential
Maximize Subsurface Data Value and Accessibility
At Katalyst, our data management solutions are driven by your needs. We accept all formats of legacy media, digitizing data and optimizing the information to modern formats. This transforms your assets into an easily accessible and marketable resource—all in an evergreen format. Our clients have the ability to organize, store and access all of their seismic and well log data through a single, user-friendly web based ESRI map interface.
Katalyst transforms all forms of legacy media, ensuring data is accessible.
Data is stored and managed online, optimizing marketability and value through an evergreen solution.
After transforming the legacy media, we capture metadata, organize and spatialize the E&P data.
Full Life Cycle Data Management
Data Management is what we live and breathe. Our end-to-end solution is entirely handled and owned by Katalyst Data Management. We perform every step in the process, from data capture and verification to data storage and organization. Katalyst operates full-service global subsurface data centers in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific so you can be assured that none of our services are outsourced.
From Kelman Technologies to Katalyst
Throughout our history, Katalyst Data Management has been rooted in geophysical data services. Originally founded as Kelman Technologies, Inc – a geophysical data processing firm – the company rebranded to Katalyst in 2012 to better represent our subsurface data management services. Today, Katalyst focuses exclusively on data management services and digital transformation of E&P assets.
Today, Katalyst focuses exclusively on data management services and digital transformation of E&P assets.
1985
February 1985
Kelman Technologies Inc. is founded in Calgary, Canada.
1996
March 1996
Kelman begins offering geophysical data management services.
2001
June 2001
Seismic data management services expand to United States.
2010
December 2010
Kelman acquires Iron Mountain Energy Services (Oil Data).
2011
July 2011
Kelman divests seismic processing business to focus on data management
2012
October 2012
Kelman rebrands to Katalyst to represent additional services.
2013
August 2013
Katalyst launches SeismicZone.com ecommerce site for seismic data.
2014
December 2014
Katalyst expands service offering to the UK and Europe.
2015
July 2015
Katalyst continues global expansion with acquisition of Asia-Pacific operation.
2016
April 2016
Katalyst expands domain support to interpretation project archives.
2017
November 2017
Katalyst launches subsurface data management consulting services.
2018
February 2018
Katalyst launches well file and well log scanning “paper to digits” service.
2019
February 2019
Katalyst opens subsurface datacenter in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2022
July 2022
Katalyst acquires Geopost Energy and expands to Brazil and South America.
