Seismic News

Seismic Data Resellers Launch First Microsite for Online Buyers’ Marketplace SeismicZone.com

New opportunity for seismic data owners to increase funds through licensed sales SeismicZone.com online data marketplace launched its first microsite for seismic data owners to market their proprietary data from their own corporate website. Seismic data owners can visually showcase their data libraries on interactive maps specific to their proprietary data, a new option for the resale market. As companies seek ways to be efficient within constrained budgets, more data owners and purchasers are beginning to […]

Katalyst Data Management to Exhibit at PNEC Data Management Conference in Houston

The 21st annual International Conference on Petroleum Data Integration, Information and Data Management is three days of technical program featuring presentations on E&P data and information management.  The conference, known simply as “PNEC” consists of attendees and exhibitors addressing issues, challenges and best practices for oil and gas data management programs. Katalyst Data Management is looking forward to exhibiting once again and will be featuring solutions for full life cycle subsurface data management at booth […]

Katalyst Presents at Blue Marble User Conference

Director of Research and Development Debasis Chatterjee and Chief Architect of Software Development Corey Puffalt jointly presented at the 2017 Blue Marble User Conference on Thursday, March 23 at the University of Calgary.  The event had 75-100 geospatial professionals in attendance, representing a wide variety of industry sectors, government departments, and academic institutions that utilize Blue Marble’s geospatial tools. The conference offers attendees an opportunity to hear from fellow users of Blue Marble geospatial tools […]

Global Technology Trends and Their (Potential) Impact in the Oil Industry

  Contributed by Guy Holmes, written for the recently published Volume 4, Issue 1 of the PPDM Foundations Journal for 1Q2017. The technologies that are changing the IT landscape around us often take time to get traction in the oil sector. Sometimes it appears we, as an industry, are so heavily invested in yesterday, that tomorrow is too much to think about. But sometimes revolution does not start within the disquiet, rather it starts next door and spreads into […]

Katalyst Presents Webinar for Entitlement Records Management

Katalyst Data Management is excited to present a webinar series focusing on data ownership best practices and how to get the most value out of your seismic data. The webinar series entitled “Entitlement Essentials” covers some critical information for seismic data owners to consider when it comes to the ownership rights of their data and best practices to maximize data value. These practices can open up the door for opportunities such as license sales, divestitures/dispositions […]

Katalyst to Exhibit at 2017 NAPE Summit in Houston

We’re excited to once again be exhibiting at the annual NAPE Summit on February 15 – 17 in Houston at the George R. Brown Convention Center.  Last year’s show had over 11,300 participants, including 700 exhibitors and 400 prospects across 35 countries. Stop by Katalyst booth #2660 this to learn more about recent enhancements to the SeismicZoneonline marketplace, including improved query features and records management tools. To schedule a live demo at the show, please contact us. […]

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 […]