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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 […]
Industry Standards?
Contributed by Guy Holmes, featured in the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists’ Preview Magazine Over the years I have had to deal with many different data sets from around the world. Ethiopian seismic data shot by Russians using Chinese equipment, Canadian well logs drilled by a Norwegian company using American down-hole tools and recorded on Japanese recording media, and even elevation data written in French using a German made pencil. The one thing that all of these […]
One Million Seismic Lines – One PPDM Database
Katalyst Data Management will be presenting at the 2016 Data Management Symposium in Perth, Australia on August 4, 2016. The event is organized by the Professional Petroleum Data Management Association (PPDM). Senior VP of Asia-Pacific Guy Holmes is on the agenda to review a massive PPDM implementation in his talk titled “One Million Seismic Lines – One PPDM Database.” The abstract for his presentation is below. One Million Seismic Lines – One PPDM Database Not many companies have over one million […]
Data Trends – The Capacity of Speed
Contributed by Guy Holmes, featured in the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists’ Preview Magazine Unbelievable … the amount of data that we can store on a single piece of recording media (disk, tape, thumb drive, etc.) just seems to keep getting larger. Will it ever end? For many years, data recording technology in the oil and gas sector has been dominated by IBM. Starting with the development of the 9 track tape in the 1960s, followed by […]
Perth iGlass Datacenter Assists Oil and Gas Explorers in the Asia Pacific Region
Our new iGlass facility in Perth is enabling oil and gas companies operating throughout Asia Pacific to manage data from their exploration activities without having to invest in and deploy sophisticated data technology in remote locations or less developed countries. To understand the value iGlass delivers to the oil and gas sector, you have to appreciate that it is a fully supported web based software as a service (SaaS) offering – which means that companies […]