Subsurface data without legacy limits

The Stratus Alliance

Osokey, Moveout Data and Tape Ark have joined forces to give energy companies a single, coordinated route from obsolete physical archives to trusted, cloud-accessible information.

Make legacy subsurface
data ready for what
comes next

The Stratus Alliance enables energy organisations to bring complete subsurface archives together within a scalable, secure and accessible environment.

Once recovered, conditioned and properly catalogued, this information can support seismic reprocessing, high-performance computing, global collaboration, advanced analytics, foundation models, machine learning and generative AI.

The Stratus Alliance connects physical legacy media with modern data infrastructure—combining industrial-scale migration, deep geoscience expertise and cloud-native access within one coordinated ecosystem.

Three Partners, One Vision

Three Partners,
One Vision

Every year, energy companies invest millions of dollars acquiring new subsurface data, whilst petabytes of valuable historical information remain trapped on obsolete media and in proprietary formats.

Recovering this data has traditionally meant engaging multiple specialist providers, accepting considerable technical risk, and undertaking complex integration work before it can even be trusted, let alone used.

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Tape Ark

Tape Ark contributes industrial-scale ingestion of both modern and legacy tape, disk and other physical media, supported by automated workflows, robotics and secure cloud migration. Its Nexus platform provides archive visibility, cataloguing and lifecycle management. Has processed millions of tapes across the energy, media, healthcare, government and enterprise sectors.

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Moveout Data

Moveout brings forensic geoscience expertise built on more than 300 years of combined global field operations and data-processing experience. Its Metaseis platform has been proven on petabytes of real seismic data over the past 15 years, supporting the analysis, conditioning and quality control of seismic and navigation data. Moveout is also the team behind the UK NDR Support function.

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Osokey

Osokey provides browser-based discovery, visualisation and collaboration for subsurface data through its Stream platform. Stream enables users to search, explore and access seismic, well and related geoscience information, making complex archives easier to understand, share and use. Osokey’s technology underpins the UK National Data Repository (NDR), developed in partnership with the NSTA.

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Built for complex subsurface archives

The Stratus Alliance is designed for organisations managing:

Large physical tape and disk collections
Multiple generations of seismic media and formats
Incomplete, inconsistent or unreliable catalogues
Disconnected seismic, navigation and supporting information
Data spread across multiple vendors, systems and locations
Ageing tape drives, legacy applications and unsupported infrastructure
Data required for regulatory reporting or long-term retention
Archives inherited through acquisitions, divestments or corporate change
Information requiring conditioning, validation or reprocessing
Multi-client and shared-interest data libraries
Datasets intended for analytics, machine learning or AI
Geoscience information with potential applications in carbon storage, geothermal energy and other new-energy projects
Large physical tape and disk collections
Multiple generations of seismic media and formats
Incomplete, inconsistent or unreliable catalogues
Disconnected seismic, navigation and supporting information
Data spread across multiple vendors, systems and locations
Ageing tape drives, legacy applications and unsupported infrastructure
Data required for regulatory reporting or long-term retention
Archives inherited through acquisitions, divestments or corporate change
Information requiring conditioning, validation or reprocessing
Multi-client and shared-interest data libraries
Datasets intended for analytics, machine learning or AI
Geoscience information with potential applications in carbon storage, geothermal energy and other new-energy projects

What the Stratus Alliance delivers

A complete, coordinated pathway from physical media to active, accessible subsurface data.

Industrial-scale tape and disk ingestion
Specialist seismic, navigation and geoscience expertise
Automated data conditioning, validation and quality control
Parallel processing and metadata extraction
Browser-based data discovery, visualisation and access
Secure collaboration across teams, organisations and locations
Flexible global project delivery
Client-controlled cloud or hybrid storage
Reduced dependence on obsolete media, hardware and software
Data prepared for reprocessing, analytics, machine learning and AI
One accountable workflow from archive assessment to usable data
Industrial-scale tape and disk ingestion
Specialist seismic, navigation and geoscience expertise
Automated data conditioning, validation and quality control
Parallel processing and metadata extraction
Browser-based data discovery, visualisation and access
Secure collaboration across teams, organisations and locations
Flexible global project delivery
Client-controlled cloud or hybrid storage
Reduced dependence on obsolete media, hardware and software
Data prepared for reprocessing, analytics, machine learning and AI
One accountable workflow from archive assessment to usable data
Global Reach

Global Reach

With facilities and operations across North America, Europe and Australia, the three companies can support customer archives wherever they are located.

“By working together, we can take customers from aging physical media to governed, accessible and AI-ready information at a scale that was previously extremely difficult to achieve.”

Guy Holmes
Guy Holmes

Founder and CEO, Tape Ark