Shelvia Smith, Author at Katalyst Data Management

Hadoop-de-do: Hadoop, cloud storage and processing, analytics and big data

Contributed by Guy Holmes, featured in the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists’Preview Magazine There have been some real game changers that have hit the ground in the last few years. Big Data Analytics, Watson from IBM, IoT and Hadoop are among these. I hear that pockets of the industry are starting to adopt some of this technology, but it still feels like we are a little behind the times. If there is one thing that the […]

Giving Back in 2016

2016 was a challenging year in many ways, and we are grateful to have been able to give back to some wonderful organizations that support our community and industry. In December, our Calgary office teamed up once again to serve lunch at the Mustard Seed, an organization that provides basic services (shelter, food and clothing) and support services (including employment, health and wellness, and spiritual care), as well as housing to those in need. Other […]

Katalyst Data Management to Exhibit at PROSPEX 2016 in London

The Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain will host their annual PROSPEX Expo in London this year on December 14-15, 2016. The aim of PROSPEX is to provide a venue for announced “Promote Licensees” and oil and gas companies to market prospects and meet with potential investors to facilitate the “deal making” process. Katalyst is pleased to be exhibiting once again and excited to share our recent expansion beyond seismic into well and interpretation archive […]

Searchable Interpretation Archives are Key to Valuable Data

Managing interpretation project archives using an online ESRI map interface Looking for a particular interpretation project archive can be a lengthy, challenging process. Typically at E&P companies, archived files are located somewhere within the daily disk-based backups of the computing environment. While the data protection is beneficial, these backups often fall short of the geoscientist’s need to easily locate and access a project dataset. The main issue is there is no context available on these […]

New Booth and New Domains at SEG Dallas 2016

Katalyst Data Management exhibited at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting in Dallas on October 16-19, 2016. We were excited to be featuring a new booth this year in addition to the new domains we have added to our subsurface data management solution iGlass. The new interpretation module ProjectDataStor was highlighted along with the new coverage we have to offer on SeismicZone.com. In-booth presentations covered both applications and all of the new enhancements to […]

Katalyst Hosts Subsurface Data Management Forum for iGlass Users in Houston

Katalyst Data Management was pleased to host an iGlass User Meeting in Houston at the Hilton Houston Westchase on September 21st. The half-day session featured the latest enhancements to iGlass as well was plans for the future and an interactive session. Pat Meroney, Director of Geologic Solutions presented on ProjectDataStor, the new interpretation project module on iGlass. Also on hand was Debasis Chatterjee, Director of Research and Development, who reviewed the current enhancements to iGlass […]

Team Katalyst Wins Spirit Award at CSEG Women in Seismic Golf Tournament

For the second year in a row, Team Katalyst was honored to take home the “Spirit Award” at September’s CSEG Women in Seismic Golf Tournament in Calgary. The event was 9 holes with 80 participants including golfers, hole sponsors and volunteers. In total the event raised approximately $7,100 towards the Alberta Cancer Foundation (ACF). ACF delivers progress in cancer research, prevention, treatment, and care by generating community investment for Alberta’s many cancer centers. It is a movement […]

Onsite Geophysical Services Now Available in Calgary

Katalyst Data Management is excited to now be able to offer onsite support for database and geophysical services to our clients in Calgary. Whether you need help with database cleanup, completion, reporting or other projects, Katalyst has people with extensive experience in most geophysical applications that are well-versed in PPDM, seismic and well data formats. Please contact our Calgary location if you need support for any of the following areas: • Full data management – life cycle • Project […]

Katalyst’s New Zealand Location Hosts Core Workshop

The Katalyst Data Management Team based in New Zealand has a long term contract to manage the New Zealand Governments National Core store located in Featherston. In September, our core store contract manager Dan Willmott hosted a core logging workshop for the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and AusIMM Minerals Institute as part of their annual conference. The workshop presented a summary of the technologies available for core logging in exploration and mining. The 2,300 square meter National […]

Some Staggering Statistics for Subsurface Data Management Portal iGlass

Katalyst Data Management has hit some massive numbers with our private cloud solution iGlass in recent years! Hard to imagine that all of this information used to reside on thousands of different databases, spreadsheets and physical items, and now is all accessible via one PPDM database. iGlass Statistics Currently 21 million physical inventory records in the database There are 618,000 unique seismic surveys 3.2 million seismic lines 1.4 billion rows are populated in the database 17.2 petabytes of seismic trace data managed from the […]