Subsurface data without legacy limits
Moveout Data helps organisations understand, recover, condition and repurpose complex seismic, navigation and well data.
Subsurface archives rarely contain perfectly organised and consistently documented information. They often span multiple generations of acquisition, processing and storage technology. Media labels may be incomplete, navigation may be separated from the seismic data, formats may be inconsistent and the relationships between datasets may have been lost over time.
Successfully modernising these archives requires more than reading media and copying files. It requires people who understand how seismic data was acquired, processed, organised and used.
Moveout provides this specialist geoscience capability.
Its team brings extensive practical experience in seismic acquisition, navigation, processing, quality control, data conditioning, regulatory reporting and legacy-data recovery.
Many energy organisations have inherited data collections assembled through decades of exploration, acquisition, divestment and corporate change.
The catalogue may be incomplete, inconsistent with the physical holdings or disconnected from the data itself. Files may lack meaningful names or reliable metadata. Different components of the same survey may be stored separately or held on different generations of media.
Moveout applies a forensic geoscience approach to establish:
This creates a stronger foundation for cloud migration and avoids treating every tape, file and dataset as though it has equal value or requires identical treatment.
Moveout can reconcile physical media, corporate catalogues, regulatory records and data identified during recovery.
Its library audit and rationalisation services help organisations create an accurate understanding of their subsurface holdings and determine the most appropriate action for each asset.
A rationalisation program can help:
The objective is not simply to create another media list. It is to improve the accessibility, integrity and future usability of the underlying geoscience information.
Legacy seismic data was created for the systems, standards and business requirements of its time. Even when it is successfully recovered, it may not be immediately suitable for modern interpretation, cloud processing or analytical applications.
Moveout conditions and repurposes recovered data for contemporary technical workflows.
This may include:
This turns successfully recovered files into usable technical assets.
Moveout is the developer and owner of Metaseis, its proprietary technology for investigating, conditioning and quality-controlling geoscience data.
Metaseis combines Moveout’s seismic expertise with automated and remotely operated workflows. It is designed to work with both modern and legacy datasets and can be integrated with the Alliance’s larger ingest and cloud-migration processes.
Metaseis capabilities include:
By integrating Metaseis with Tape Ark’s ingest capability, the Alliance can reduce repeated media handling and create a more connected path from physical tape to conditioned cloud data.
Some seismic collections include older, specialist or low-density tape formats that require experienced handling, appropriate hardware and an understanding of the original data structures.
Moveout can provide specialist support for these collections, including media handling, recovery, technical investigation and data quality control.
Where required, a project can be performed at Moveout’s UK facility or supported remotely through another Alliance location.
Subsurface data is frequently subject to government reporting, licence, retention and relinquishment obligations.
Meeting these requirements demands an understanding of both the data and the applicable submission standards. Moveout helps customers identify, prepare, validate and deliver geoscience information required for regulatory compliance.
The Moveout team also supports the United Kingdom’s National Data Repository function, providing practical experience in the preparation and management of regulatory subsurface information.
Important subsurface knowledge is not always stored digitally. It may remain in seismic sections, maps, observer logs, acquisition reports, navigation plots and other physical records.
Moveout provides specialist scanning supported by geoscience expertise. This helps ensure that physical records are captured and organised in a way that preserves their technical context and usefulness.
Where broader paper archives are involved, the Alliance can also connect with Tape Ark’s Archive Insight capability for scalable document digitisation, indexing and search.
Within the Cloud First Alliance, Moveout is the technical authority for seismic-data conditioning, processing and management.
The combined operating model is:
Projects may be performed at Moveout’s UK facility, Tape Ark facilities or customer-approved locations. The delivery location is selected according to logistics, efficiency, technical requirements, data sovereignty and customer preference.
Moveout can also license Metaseis independently for deployment within customer environments, with Tape Ark integration available where required.
Legacy subsurface information can retain substantial scientific, commercial and regulatory value.
Realising that value requires both reliable recovery technology and experienced geoscience judgement. Moveout brings the specialist knowledge required to understand what the data represents and prepare it for its next use.
Tape Ark® specializes in oil and gas tape data migration, ensuring that all seismic and subsurface data are efficiently migrated to cloud storage, revitalizing your data assets for modern usage. By focusing on oil and gas data migration, Tape Ark removes the barriers caused by outdated storage methods, unlocking new potential for your exploration and production activities.Â
Tape Ark is committed to doing data justice. We have a suite of seismic data storage solutions to preserve and migrate your data, maximising its value for today, tomorrow, and beyond.Â
Review the list of Tape Media Formats and Data Formats that Tape Ark can migrate to your preferred cloud platform. Read more about our Metadata Extraction Service here.
Read our latest blog post on the migration of 40 Petabytes of Energy Data to the Cloud.
Data positioned ready for use or trade
Metadata extraction for asset management platforms and NDRs
Tape & Data duplication identification
Data conversion, reformatting, & subsetting
Restore & reformat exploration & geophysical data
Merging of navigation data into SEGD/SEGY
Modern tools for data cataloging & indexingÂ
Online access to data for ordering, viewing, & delivery
Geophysical life cycle data solutions – from acquisition to disposal
With Tape Ark, you can harness the full potential of the cloud using the Tape Ark seismic data storage service.Â
Explore the possibilities for your oil and gas data management by talking to one of our experts today.Â
Tape Ark prides itself on its technical capability. Customers feel assured their objectives and unique challenges are well understood – what’s important to them, where they’re headed, and the opportunities that lie ahead.
The world’s only dedicated tape to cloud mass migration experts.
Restoring data from legacy formats requires deep technical knowledge and experience.
At Tape Ark, we specialize in rapidly migrating media tapes to the cloud, regardless of volume, size, or format.
The world’s only dedicated tape to cloud mass migration experts.
Tape Ark can migrate almost any tape media format to the cloud including 9 track tapes, 8 mm Exabytes, 4mm DATS, DLT and SuperDLT tapes, 3590, 3480, 3592, and LTO1 through LTO8 tapes. For a full list visit Tape Formats and Data Formats
