Case Study
Enabling Mass
Field-to-Multicloud Data Transfer for Subsea Asset Inspection.
Seagate Lyve Mobile Array and Cloud Import Services handle Zupt's large-scale data movement and storage.
05 November, 2024 3 minute read
Key Results
" Enabled Giant Haul of Data
Zupt's cameras run for weeks at a time, producing hundreds of terabytes of data.
" Accelerated Data Delivery
Lyve Mobile sped up Zupt's transfer from field to cloud by a few weeks.
" Preferred Destination
Seagate Cloud Import seamlessly transferred data to multiple cloud locations.
Introduction
Zupt, a Houston-based survey and technology services company, performs subsea surveys for a variety of offshore energy clients. Real-time processing and agile field data management are
crucial for these projects. However, in remote subsea environments such as subsea oil fields, it wasn't easy to quickly and safely transport mass amounts of collected data from offshore site surveys to Zupt's own storage for processing as well as the customer's cold storage in AWS.
With a combination of Lyve Mobile data transfer as a service and Cloud Import Service solutions, Seagate rose to meet Zupt's challenges.
The Story
Zupt utilizes Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) equipped with their 3D Recon specialty stereo camera technology to inspect integrity of subsea assets. The cameras can run for weeks at a
time, producing hundreds of terabytes of coordinate data, spatially accurate digital 3D Models,
video, and images.
The data collected by these Zupt's 3D recon gets transmitted via a subsea fiber-optic umbilical
to the support vessel, where it is stored into Seagate Lyve Mobile arrays. This setup allows Zupt to access and analyze the data in real time, ensuring data acquisition of the hundreds of structures that need analysis.
The Goal
Zupt was asked by a supermajor (one of the world's biggest publicly owned oil and gas
