IMPROVE SEISMIC DATA ACCESS WITH COGNITE DATAFUSION
Liberate Structured and Unstructured Data • Empower Domain Experts • Reduce Time to Value
Seismic data discovery, quality assessment, and retrieval is often a time-consuming, iterative, cross-domain
process. Challenges includes:■ Typically, only the metadata is organized in aproper database, making seismic datasets retriev■ Individual vendors and seismic software providers
often implement their own proprietary datastores.

able only as flat files.
The result of these and other common challenges is■ Querying for a subset of seismic is practically

duplication of data, cumbersome cross-tool collabo-

impossible, as is getting the actual data coverage

ration and workflows, limited access to and fromwithin a survey.

third-party applications, and difficult automation ofprocessing, interpretation, and analytics. Ultimately■ Normally the full seismic dataset must be loaded

this situation leads to significant loss of time, costly

into interpretation software before any kind ofvendor lock-in, and a structural inability to access thequalitative or quantitative assessment of the data

full potential of data.

can be made.

Improve Decision-Making Processes, Minimize Risk, and Maximize
Value with Cognite Data Fusion
Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) delivers a cloud-based API architecture that
improves how oil and gas companies ingest, store, query, visualize, andconsume seismic data. The solution empowers subsurface experts with
data-driven insights, eliminates traditional bottlenecks, and lowers the time
to value.
■ Less searching, more discovering. Our solution

map, preview a selected seismic section or timeliberates seismic datasets from different reposito

slice, and compare the same section from twories and makes them all available in a cloud-based

different cubes.

datastore. This eliminates the need to search
multiple databases and streamlines quality control■ No lock-in, only options. The open API makes data
sharing with third-party companies efficient andand validation processes.

secure without duplicating data. Users can launch■ Deep querying, rich previews. A user-friendly, web-domain applications via the API as services on top

based application gives users instant access to theof the data, which supports different workflowsseismic data in the cloud. It also enables them toby ensuring that data can move between services

search by keywords or by drawing a polygon on aeffortlessly.

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Case Study:
A leading independent European oil and gas company

not useful, that entire process needed to be repeated.

is working with Cognite to implement the cloud-based

As a result, the quality control and validation process ofseismic datastore and API. Previously, the company

seismic data normally took as long as two weeks.

stored its seismic data in a national data repository.
The only way to retrieve data from the repository was by

After implementing the cloud-based seismic datastore

physical delivery via hard disks. Once the data arrived,and API, the company’s subsurface experts now spend

a user loaded it into a software application to check theseconds on data discovery, enabling them to focus oncoverage and to preview it. If the data was wrong ordata quality instead.

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