Supported Formats

Supported Subsurface Data Formats

The following tape and file formats are just a selection of the geophysical and geological (G&G) subsurface data formats that are supported by Katalyst Data Management for the oil and gas industry. Associated digitization services include tape transcription, data copying, data cutouts, scanning, digitizing, metadata capture and cloud services.

We employ experts for seismic, interpretation, well log and microseismic data management to help us address the unique requirements of each domain.

Seismic Data Formats

SEGA, SEGB, and SEGC
SEGD, all 00xx variations
SEGX
SEGY
Sercel SN328, SN338, SN348 
SSL Leach 
SDS1010 
Western Redcor 
Mandrel 
Petty Ray SDR 2/3 
HR6300 
GeoCorr I through IV 
Phoenix I 
TIAC-9k, TIAC-10k 
GeoSystems 
TIMAP 
Wisdom 
Western Internal 
Western Code 1 through 4 
SSV8 
SIPMAP 
DFS IV & DFS III 
Digicon 
H.D.D.R. – 2000, 4000 
SDS-1010, SDS-1011 
Russian (I-2,R-2, I-4, R-4) 
Sercel 
CGG internal 
Unix/Tar/Cpio 
Disco – Vax, Convex, IBM 
Amoco, Conoco 
Exxon, Mobil 
Fairfield, Shell 
Floppy/Disk – Bison, Kingdom, SEG-P1, SEG-D, SEG-Y 
Other – client specific

7 Track Formats

Western REDCOR
Petty Ray SDR 2/3
CGG
PRAKLA DB66
PRAKLA DIGSEI
Sercel SN327
Geocom
DIPMETER HDT

Seismic Trace Sequential Tape Formats

CGG Exchange 16-bit, 18-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit 
PRAKLA 
DB66 
PRAKLA DIGSEI 
Geocom 16-bit, 32-bit, 36-bit 
Mobil SISMO, Hamburg 
Mobil Vantage 60-bit 
Petty Ray– Summit 
Phillips TEMPUS 
Phoenix 
PRAKLA-PD 
Russian I2, I4, S1 
S&A Internal 
SIPMAP 1,2,3 
Western Code 1,2,3,4 
SDS1010 
SEFEL 
SEGD, all 80xx variations 
SEGY I8, I16, I32, F32, IEEE 
Sercel SN338, SN348, SN358, SN368, SN388 
Sunray 
Teledyne 
T.I ASC 
TIMAP 
OYO-160MX (Floppy Format) 
IBM 
Digicon Internal I & II 
DISCO 
GEOCOR4 
SEISCOM MegaSeis 
Shell A5

Geological Data Formats 

Western Atlas BIT well-log
VSP in SEG-B or SEG-Y

Encapsulation Formats

RODE 
TAR 
BAR 
IBM Standard Label

Well Log Formats

LIS 
LAS 
BIT 
DLIS 
LISTIF 
DIPLOG 
HDT Dipmeter 
Card Image (ASCII/EBCDIC/BCDIC) 
SPWLA

Navigation & Support Data Formats

UKOOA 
SEGP1/90 
SEGP1/84 
SEGP1/83 
SEG-P2 
SEG-P3 
ASCII 
EBCDIC 
CGM 
CGM+ 
TIF

21 Track Formats

9K 
10K 
TIAC 
DFS3 
DFS4 
SN328 
SN338 
SN338M

Analog Formats

SIE FM 
Techno AM

Velocity Formats

ESSO V2 
Shell V5

Subsurface Media Formats Supported

Supporting and transcending more than 60 years of tape technology for the oil and gas industry, Katalyst Data Management has the most comprehensive selection of tape drives and media devices in the world. The following media formats are just a selection of those that are supported for our seismic and well data services.

Katalyst has the largest capacity and capability to read, transcribe and recover data from any magnetic media or disk ever used throughout the industry’s history of recording subsurface data.

Reel/Cartridge/Cassette/½ Inch

7 Track Reel Tape – 1200ft, 2400ft (100bpi, 256bpi, 512bpi, 800bpi) (*Read only)
9 Track Reel Tape (3420) – 600ft, 1200ft, 2400ft, 3600ft (800bpi, 1600bpi, 3200bpi, 6250bpi)
14 Track Reel Tape H.D.D.R. – 1200ft, 2400ft (8000bpi) (*Read Only)
21 Track Reel Tape
3480 Cartridge Tape – SL, XL, XXL
3490 and 3490-E Cartridge Tape – SL and XL
3590 and 3590E Magstar MP Cartridge Tape – 10GB 20GB, & 40GB
3590H Magstar MP Cartridge Tape – 60GB
3592 (Jaguar) Cartridge Tape – 60GB & 300GB
3592-Gen2/Gen3 (TS1120/TS1130) – 500GB/700GB Cartridge Tape
3592-Gen4/Gen5 (TS1140/TS1150) – 4TB/10TB Cartridge Tape
9840 A/B/C (Eagle) Cassette Tape (Pending C)
9490EE Cassette Tape (Pending)
T9940A/B Cassette Tape (Pending B)
T11000 Cartridge Tape – 500GB (Pending)
NTCP Cartridge Tape – 20GB
Redwood SD-3 Cartridge Tape – Small, Medium and Large
Metrum VHS RSP-2150 (VLDS) Cassette Tape
DLTtape Cartridge Tape – 2000, 4000, 7000, 8000 and DLT1
DLT™ VS Cartridge Tape – DLT1/VS80 (40GB), VS160 (80GB), VS1 & DLT-V4 (160GB)
DLT-S4 – (3rd Generation SuperDLT- Renaming product line) 800GB
Super DLTtape™- SDLT1 (220/320) and SLDT2 (600) Cartridge Tape – 110GB/160GB & 300GB
TK Cartridge Tape – TK30*, TK50*, TK70*, TK85, TK87, TK88 and TK89 (ComPacTape I, II, III, IIIxt, IV)
Sony DTF Cassette Tape – GW240S and GW730L
Sony DTF-2 Cassette Tape – GW2-60GS and GW2-200GL (200GB)
Sony S-AIT1 and S-AIT2 Cartridge Tape- 500GB/800GB
LTO / IBM 3580 Ultrium Cartridge Tape- LTO1 (100GB) & LTO2 (200GB)
LTO3 & LTO4 (TS2240) Cartridge Tape- 400GB/800GB
LTO5/LTO6/LTO7 Cartridge Tape- 1.5TB/2.5TB/6.0TB

Removable Memory – Sticks/Flash/ Jump/Cards/Drives

USB Pen Drives/Flash Drive/Memory Drive – JumpDrive, MicroVault, JetFlashA, DataTraveler
CompactFlash – CF – Types I & II – MicroDrive
Memory Stick – MS
Secure Digital Card – SD
SmartMedia – SM (SSFDC)
xD Picture Card – xD
PCMCIA Memory Card – Types I & II
PC Hard Disk Card – Types I & II

Other Media Types

1″ 21 Track Reel Tape – 1250ft, 2500ft (356bpi, 712bpi) (Read Only)
35mm ICI-1012 TeraByte Reel Optical Tape
Analog Tape – AM and FM (Read Only)
Documents – Paper and Velum Film
Drawings – Paper and Velum Film
Punched Cards, Microfiche/film and Paper Tape (Input Only)

Cartridge/Cassette – ¼ Inch, 4mm, 8mm, 19mm

8mm Exabyte Cassette Tape – 8200, 8500 and 8700
8mm Mammoth Cassette Tape – 8900, Mammoth LT, and 8mm Mammoth-2 Cassette Tape – M2 (20GB, 40GB, 60GB)
8mm AIT Cassette – AIT-1 , AIT-2, AIT-3 (100GB), AIT-3Ex (150GB), AIT-4 200GB and AIT-5 (400GB)
8mm AIT-Turbo Cassette – AIT-1Turbo (40GB) and AIT-E Turbo (20GB) (Pending)
8mm VXA Cassette – VXA-1 33GB (“V” series tapes) and VXA-2 80GB (“X” series tapes)
8mm VXA-320 160GB (“X” series tapes) (Pending)
4mm DAT Cassette Tape – DDS1, DDS2, DDS3 and DDS4
4mm DAT Cassette Tape – DDS5 (36GB)
19mm Sony D1 Cassette Tape – Medium and Large
19mm Ampex DD2 DST Cassette Tape – Small, Medium and Large
¼” ADR & ADR2 – (15GB, 25GB), (30GB, 60GB, 120GB)
¼” 3570 Magstar MP “B” Format Cartridge Tape
¼” 3570 Magstar MP “C” and “C-XL” Format Cartridge Tape
¼” Cartridge – Mini QIC (including Irwin, Colorado, Travan, DC2xxx’s and MC3xxx’s)
¼” Cartridge – Mini QIC (including Iomega: Ditto Max, Ditto Easy, Ditto)
¼” Cartridge – Standard QIC (including DC6xxx’s, DC9xxx’s, SLR2, SLR3, SLR4, SLR5, SLR24 (SLR6), and SLR7)
¼” Cartridge – Standard QIC SLR32 (13 GB and MLR1), SLR40, SLR50 (MLR3), SLR60,SLR75, and SLR100 & SLR140 (pending)

Removable Disk / Disk / NAS

ALL USB and Firewire (1394) Portable Drives (Fat32, NTFS, NFS)
SAN (Storage Area Network) and NAS (Network Attached Storage) Drives/Raids
CD-R(OM), CD-RW Disc – 650MB, 700MB
DD-R(OM), DD-RW (Double Density CD) Disc – 1.3GB
PD650 Rewritable Optical Disk Cartridge – 650MB
DVD-R, DVD+R, , DVD-RW, DVD+RW Recordable Disc – 3.95GB, 4.7GB &
DVD-RAM Disc- 2.6GB , 5.2GB , 4.7GB & 9.4GB
HD DVD Disc – 15GB
BluRay Disc – 25GB and 50GB
UDO Disk Cartridge – Ultra Density Optical – 30GB (Pending)
PDD (Blu-Ray) Disc, PDD23, BD-ROM, BD-R – 23GB (Pending)
3 ½” and 5 ¼” Floppy Disk – SS, DS, LD and HD
3 ½” High Capacity Floppy Disk – LS-120 & LS-240 (SuperDisk) and HIFD-200 MB
3 ½” Floptical Disk – 21MB
3 ½”, 5 ¼”, 12″ and 14″ M.O., WORM, and Optical Disk Cartridge – various including IBM, Plasmon, Sony, H-P, and Panasonic
12″ Optical Disk Cartridge – Philips LMS/Plasmon LMS 4000, 6000, 8000
5 ¼” Bernoulli Disk – 44, 90, 105, 150 and 230 MB Iomega JAZ Disk – 1GB and 2GB
Iomega PocketZip (Clik!) Disk – 40MB
Iomega ZIP Disk – 100MB, 250MB & 750MB
Syquest Disk Cartridge – Ezflyer 135 & 230MB, SyJet 1.5GB, SparQ 1GB
3 ½” Syquest Disk Cartridge – SQ310 105MB and SQ327 270MB
5 ¼” Syquest Disk Cartridge – SQ400 44MB, SQ800 88MB, SQ1100 105MB and SQ2000 200M

* Where Katalyst Data Management does not have a drive available, it has associations with world class companies who can assist.

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