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Is your data NDR compliant?
How Katalyst Data Management is solving the UK's subsurface data obligation issue
Good subsurface data has never been more valuable. From oil and gas exploration to carbon storage and offshore wind positioning, geological characterisation is essential, yet new data acquisition is becoming increasingly expensive. The case for reusing legacy datasets is clear.
In 2021, the UK’s North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) launched a cloud-based National Data Repository (NDR) to centralise subsurface data. When the NSTA urged operators to upload their holdings, many turned to Katalyst Data Management to mine, transform and submit data on their behalf. Well data and seismic submissions carry distinct regulatory requirements, and legacy holdings vary enormously.
Scaling the data mountain
Katalyst deploys experienced professionals with the latest tools to navigate decades-old archives across two domains, seismic data and well data, each with its own specialist workflow.
Data submission expertise
Seismic Data
A recognised leader in digital transformation and legacy-media handling, Katalyst offers a dedicated NDR seismic submission service, guiding operators’ data from legacy media through format conversion, QC and metadata enrichment to a compliant upload.
Well Data
Well data compliance spans wireline logs, completion reports, geological assessments and production records, often scattered across fragmented systems. Katalyst’s answer is CTAGer, a purpose-built tool that, alongside experienced professionals, cuts through this complexity and follows a rigorous QA/QC prior to upload.
Katalyst ctager: Simplifying regulatory requirements and driving discovery
CTAGer combines automation, intelligent workflows and discovery tools with a ‘human in the loop’ for efficient, trustworthy compliance.
Key capabilities include:
Information discovery at scale – AI search and contextual tagging provide rapid access across fragmented datasets.
User-validated compliance workflows – AI-suggested CTAGs are easily confirmed against document views and summaries.
‘At-a-glance’ CTAG coverage – documents and data are ranked against NSTA requirements, letting users flag gaps before submission.
Dynamic dashboards and project reporting – real-time visibility into reporting status shows which have achieved 100 % compliance and how many still have outstanding obligations.
Katalyst’s broader vision
NDR compliance is part of a broader ambition. Katalyst is driving digital transformation across the energy sector, building an automated ecosystem where compliance and discovery go hand in hand, unlocking data untouched for decades.
As the energy transition accelerates, operators who access and deploy legacy data fastest will hold a competitive advantage. With experienced well and seismic domain knowledge together with CTAGer and iGlass, Katalyst is positioning itself and its clients to do exactly that.
