Allied Seismic Connects to Storage Alliance for Data Loading.

Business Editors/Technology & Energy Writers

CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2003

Today Storage Alliance Inc. (OTCBB:SGAL) announces it has entered into a strategic alliance with Allied Seismic Ltd. to offer Allied's industry leading seismic data conversion and storage services on-line. Allied has long been the established data service provider for the Oil and Gas industry providing seismic transcription, storage and copy services to some of the largest Oil and Gas companies.

"Allied Seismic is in the business of transcribing seismic data and ensuring this data goes back to our customers free of errors and in the medium of their choice," states Craig Maxwell, President of Allied Seismic Ltd., "and Storage Alliance are experts in the management and delivery of on-line content. Through this relationship, customers now have the option to retrieve their data using the Storage Alliance DataPort(TM) service. This assures them fast, reliable retrieval times and the usual high standard of accuracy due to Allied's leading audit and edit processes."

Jeff Ascah, President and CEO of Storage Alliance agrees, "This partnership is a prime example of our continued emphasis on providing technology solutions that help companies improve work processes and reduce exploration costs. As a first step in this relationship, Storage Alliance and Allied Seismic are working side by side to provide Murphy Oil Company with on-line access to their consolidated database of transcribed seismic data."

About DataPort(TM)

The Storage Alliance DataPort(TM) Storage Utility is a fully managed storage utility service that provides on demand, highly scalable storage capacity in a secure, managed environment for medium to large businesses. DataPort(TM) is provided on a pay as you go basis and when combined with our PortAge(TM) (backup and restore) services, provide customers with the convenience of a virtual storage facility and significant improvements in business continuity.

About Storage Alliance(TM)

Storage Alliance is a provider of data storage and content management solutions in the petroleum industry; one of the world's most data and computing intensive industries. Storage Alliance's sophisticated data storage and content management solutions protect and manage seismic and related petroleum exploration and production data, and deliver this vital data with leading analytical applications and workflow tools. Our web-based services enable upstream petroleum industry customers to focus more resources on their core competency -- cost effectively finding oil & gas -- and less on information management and infrastructure, the result of which should shorten analysis and decision-making cycles, and improve corporate financial performance.

About Allied Seismic Ltd.

Allied Seismic Ltd. is a leading provider of seismic data transcription and copy services to the upstream petroleum exploration and production market. Labeled GEOdisc, Allied was the first to offer transcribed data to this marketplace in conventional formats on a CD medium.