45 years of experience

2,500 global clients

10 PB new data archived each year

1500+ legacy tape drives and machines available for use

Energy and Geoscience

Recover, preserve, and manage subsurface and seismic data so business-critical exploration, licensing, and compliance decisions can depend on trustworthy information.

"Irreplaceable data can mean a survey from the 1960s that can’t be reshot because there’s now a town there. That’s when you know the recovery has to work."
Phil Webb
Transcription Manager

Energy and geoscience organizations rely on huge volumes of subsurface, seismic, and technical records gathered over decades.

Too much of this information sits on aging media or formats that today’s systems struggle to read. We’ve helped companies across the world to recover, preserve, and structure their data so it remains usable, secure, and accessible. By bringing legacy exploration data back into active use, we help you reduce risk, avoid costly repeated work and make better-informed decisions across exploration, production, and regulatory reporting.

How We Help

Recover legacy exploration data

We retrieve seismic, well, and subsurface data from outdated or damaged media, restoring information that would otherwise be inaccessible or lost. Our teams use sector expertise to identify gaps and inconsistencies, to make sure your dataset is accurate, reliable and traceable.

Prepare data for today’s platforms

Recovered data is validated, structured, and migrated into formats compatible with current systems. This makes it faster and easier to access so that the right data reaches the right people when crucial decisions need making.

Support compliance and licensing

To support you with regulatory and licensing requirements we help make sure your historic data is complete, defensible and auditable, so it can stand up to scrutiny during inspections and submissions.

Reduce cost and duplication

Making existing data usable again can help you avoid repeated surveys, reduce exploration costs, and extend the value of information that cannot be easily recreated.

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Find out how Ovation can help you transform your data from difficult problems to valued and usable resources.

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How We Can Help

"Sometimes our work is about giving clients certainty. When regulators come calling, they need to know exactly what data they have and where it is."
James Laming
Director Global Operations
Our work in energy and geoscience

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See how energy organizations work with Ovation to recover legacy data, support compliance, reduce risk, and make confident exploration decisions.