GeoQuest and Guardian Data Form Data Management Services Alliance.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 1998--GeoQuest and Guardian Data Seismic announced today they have signed an alliance designating Guardian Data Seismic as a preferred partner for seismic transcription services for GeoQuest customers. Because exploration and production (E&P) companies increasingly recognize the importance of effectively administering their expanding volumes of data, the alliance will offer technology and services for managing reports, seismic tapes, seismic sections and associated observer logs. The alliance will enhance GeoQuest's seismic data management offering, providing customers with expert teams to recover and transcribe To copy data from one medium to another; for example, from one source document to another, or from a source document to the computer. It often implies a change of format or codes. their seismic data onto state-of-the-art media. Then the media can be accessed near line using GeoQuest's SeisDB(R) seismic trace storage and archival system for a total data management solution. "The GeoQuest-Guardian Data partnership will provide a solid platform for clients to gain the most effective use of their data sets," said Bryan Robertson, managing director of Guardian Data. "This new partnership will help ensure that GeoQuest client data -- regardless of age -- will be accurate, accessible and usable." Initially, services from the alliance will be combined in GeoQuest's Australian Data Center that offers E&P data management outsourcing to Australian oil and gas companies. The center -- scheduled to open in August -- will safely manage all E&P data, using modern database technology and approved standards. Guardian Data Seismic -- established in Australia in 1984 -- supplies data recovery, data archiving and data management solutions to E&P companies. The company can transcribe all media types and formats -- analogue sheets, 21 track tapes, 9 track tapes, 3480, 3490 and 3490E cartridges, 4mm and 8mm cartridges -- as well as high-speed/high-density media types and formats such as record oriented data encapsulation Data encapsulation can mean:
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optimizing the value of their oil and gas reservoirs gas reservoirIn geology, a naturally occurring storage area, characteristically a folded rock formation, that traps and holds natural gas. The reservoir rock must be permeable and porous to contain the gas, and it has to be capped by impervious rock in order to form an . GeoQuest operates more than 110 data services centers and software support offices in 58 countries. For additional information on GeoQuest, access the GeoQuest web page through Connect Schlumberger at: http://www.connect.slb.com (R) Registered trademark of Schlumberger (a) Registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation
CONTACT: GeoQuest, Houston
Bobbie Ireland, 713/513-2206
bireland@houston.geoquest.slb.com
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