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Iron Mountain Subsurface Data Discovery solution with Katalyst Data Management

Unlock valuable insights with a single subsurface data solution

A wealth of information, sitting in storage

The energy industry has been collecting vast amounts of subsurface data for more than fifty years, much of it sitting unprocessed in storage. Legacy physical assets conflict with newer formats and offsite storage and compatibility issues hinder analysis.

$3 trillion
In 2030 the potential market opportunity in new energy businesses is estimated at $3 trillion.
Source: McKinsey
30-40%
Hours saved with AI-based extraction techniques
Source: PwC
1.75M cubic feet
Iron Mountain stores more than 1.75M cubic feet of core samples, physical documents, and digital media.
Source: Internal

Turn forgotten subsurface records into a goldmine of information

Why choose our Subsurface Data Discovery solution

Our Subsurface Data Discovery solution enables access to critical subsurface data by digitizing information stored in records or legacy formats and utilizing advanced technologies to make data easily searchable. Iron Mountain and Katalyst Data Management together bring a proven end-to-end solution to provide to companies disrupting and reinventing themselves in the energy transition.

Access and search more of your legacy data than ever before:

Enhance data visibility

Enhance data visibility by enabling your organization to see all aspects of your subsurface domain, regardless of format or structure.

Increase business efficiency

Increase business efficiency by empowering your teams to focus on value-adding research rather than combing through boxes of data.

Improve decision making

Improve decision making by replacing guesswork with action and results through genAI fueled search capabilities to help discover new opportunities, increase confidence in strategic planning, and reduce risk.

The results speak for themselves

$10M+
in data acquisition costs saved by discovering lines of seismic data not recorded elsewhere
1000s
of boxes of tapes and documents digitized monthly
95%
reduction in time to deliver international data requests
8 to 1
consolidated data from 8 systems into single platform

Source: Internal documentation from work with a large oil and gas company. Results may vary.