DPTS have recently completed a project for Petro-Canada that involved the transcription of 35,000 seismic and well log tapes to high-capacity media.
Over
20 years of archive data were gathered from storage facilities in the UK and
Germany, and a new bespoke database was created which was more applicable to
the users of the data.
Archive
data was transcribed from a variety of media, including 7, 9 and 21-track
tapes, 3480, 3490E, DLT, 4mm and 8mm cartridges and optical disks. Due to their age some of the tapes were not
in good condition and “stiction” was prevalent. In these cases our full data recovery procedures were employed,
resulting in all data being successfully recovered.
Veronica
Kher, Head of Information Management at Petro-Canada, commented “we now have a
pristine quality copy of our legacy data on modern high-capacity media which
will preserve our valuable data assets and significantly reduce our ongoing
storage costs”.