Phillips Petroleum Company UK Ltd has awarded a contract to M-R DPTS Ltd to remaster all of their UK exploration tape data to 3590 high density media.
Phillips' Project
Leader, Brian Lucken, is always looking for ways to improve the cost effective
custodianship of physical data for Phillips and their partners.
Facing the
cyclical requirement to 'clean' each tape, Brian invited DPTS and other service
companies to bid for a contract to transcribe the tapes to 3590 format. He
believed that this would further safeguard the integrity of the data for future
exploration work, reduce day to day maintenance and increase the capacity of
Phillips' own data store (known as 'Kingswey') in Woking, Surrey.
Looking further
into the future, Phillips will also be better positioned if there was a
business need or requirement to migrate to an online or nearline data delivery
and storage solution for Seismic data.
DPTS will perform the project at the Kingswey data
store in Woking using its Diplomat™ Media Remastering System. The Diplomat
system runs on a Pentium PC under Microsoft Windows NT and provides rapid
transcription of seismic data in any known format to industry-standard SEGY or
SEGD format. Rigorous quality assurance methods are built into the
transcription process, both during and after the creation of each 3590
cartridge, to ensure maximum recovery of data. A further feature of the
Diplomat software is the automatic generation of Table of Contents (TOC) files
for indexing and uploading output tapes to data delivery systems.
The total project comprises 120,000 9-track tapes,
3480 and 3490E cartridges which will be output to approximately 3,500 3590
cartridges. DPTS expects to complete the project within a 12 month period.