Tape Ark, Moveout Data and Osokey - Subsurface data without legacy limits
The Stratus Alliance brings together Tape Ark, Moveout Data and Osokey to create an advanced, automated and globally scalable ecosystem for subsurface data modernisation.
The Alliance combines Tape Ark’s industrial-scale media ingest and cloud-migration infrastructure, Moveout’s seismic intelligence and Metaseis technology, and Osokey’s cloud-native visualisation and collaboration platform.
Together, we provide an end-to-end path from physical media to accessible cloud-based subsurface knowledge.
We recover the media.
We understand and improve the data.
We make it accessible.
We help put it back to work.
Energy companies have accumulated enormous volumes of seismic, navigation, well and supporting information.
Much of this data remains stored on aging tapes, disks, paper records and isolated file systems. Even when a catalogue exists, users may be unable to inspect the underlying information without first requesting a restore, moving large files and loading them into specialist software.
This separates people from the information they need and limits the organisation’s ability to process, share and analyse its data at scale.
The Status Alliance begins with a different principle: subsurface data should be moved into a controlled cloud environment where it can be processed, enriched, visualised and used at scale.
The Status Alliance is cloud first and that means more than selecting cloud storage as a destination. It means designing the complete workflow around cloud accessibility, automation, elasticity, integration and customer control.
Tape Ark provides the infrastructure, automation and global operating capability required to recover data from tape, disk and other legacy media at industrial scale.
Tape Ark’s role can include:
Tape Ark’s distributed infrastructure allows large projects to be performed from the facility best aligned with logistics, capacity, data sovereignty and customer requirements.
Moveout provides the specialist knowledge required to understand and improve complex geoscience information.
Its team has extensive experience in seismic acquisition, processing, navigation, conditioning, quality control, compliance and legacy-data recovery.
Moveout’s role can include:
Moveout also provides Metaseis, its proprietary technology for automated seismic-data conditioning, processing and quality control.
Osokey provides the cloud-native environment through which subsurface data can be discovered, viewed, shared and analysed.
Its browser-based technology connects users directly with seismic data through an intuitive map-based interface.
Osokey’s role can include:
Osokey turns a collection of migrated cloud objects into an accessible subsurface resource.
The Status Alliance can support the complete subsurface data-modernisation lifecycle.
We identify the physical media, locations, catalogues, formats, software dependencies, business requirements and known risks.
Physical holdings are inventoried and compared with available catalogues and records. Duplicates, gaps and inconsistencies are identified.
Data can be prioritised according to media risk, business value, regulatory requirements, geographic relevance and intended future use.
Tape Ark recovers data from tape, disk and other legacy media using parallel, high-throughput workflows. Moveout provides specialist support for seismic and low-density formats where required.
Validated data is transferred into the customer’s chosen cloud environment. The customer retains control of its data and cloud architecture.
Moveout applies geoscience expertise and Metaseis to identify, reconcile, standardise and quality-control the recovered information.
Metadata is extracted, survey relationships are reconstructed and the archive is spatially indexed. Corporate knowledge can be associated with relevant surveys and areas.
Osokey provides a browser-based, map-driven environment for discovering and viewing the subsurface repository.
Authorised internal and external users can work around selected datasets through controlled cloud access, collaboration workspaces or virtual data rooms.
Once accessible, the data can support interpretation, scalable processing, new analysis, machine learning, AI, commercialisation and energy-transition applications.
Metaseis connects Moveout’s geoscience intelligence with the Alliance’s automated ingest and cloud workflows.
Its capabilities include cloud and API-triggered processing, parallel operations, automated three-dimensional navigation merging, remote execution and seismic-data quality control.
When integrated with Tape Ark’s ingest platform, Metaseis can help reduce disconnected hand-offs between media recovery and technical data preparation. Recovered data can move into structured conditioning and QC workflows while the larger migration remains in progress.
The objective is a more continuous path from legacy physical media to validated, accessible cloud data.
Projects can be delivered from the Alliance location that best meets the customer’s requirements.
The combined footprint includes Tape Ark operations and facilities supporting Dallas, Toronto, London, Perth and India, together with Moveout’s United Kingdom operations and Osokey’s global cloud-based delivery.
Potential delivery models include:
Location decisions are based on efficiency, logistics, technical capability, data sovereignty and client preference—not organisational boundaries between Alliance members.
The Alliance is built around transparency, modularity and customer control.
Data can reside within the customer’s chosen cloud environment rather than being unnecessarily tied to a proprietary storage location. Customers can engage the complete Alliance or select the capabilities required for a particular project.
This provides:
A large subsurface archive may contain valuable production data, regulatory records, duplicate copies, incomplete surveys, damaged media and information with little remaining business value.
Applying the same process to every tape and file can create unnecessary cost and delay.
The Status Alliance supports a risk- and value-based approach. High-risk or high-value media can be prioritised. Repeatable processing can be automated, while geoscience specialists focus their effort on exceptions, damaged data and technically complex datasets.
Where appropriate, media can be ingested first and metadata extraction, enrichment and analysis can then be performed at cloud scale. This removes the need for every data item to progress through a slow, purely sequential workflow.
The Status Alliance is suited to organisations dealing with:
For the first time, energy organisations can bring entire subsurface archives together within a scalable cloud environment.
Once accessible, this information can support high-performance computing, seismic reprocessing, global collaboration, foundation models, machine learning and generative AI.
The Status Alliance creates the bridge between physical legacy media and these new capabilities.
It combines global infrastructure, deep geoscience expertise and modern cloud access within one coordinated ecosystem.
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
