Schlumberger is to provide software and services to a new data bank in Siberia. The Central Territorial Data Bank in Salekhard will be built over the next three years with technology from Schlumberger, Storage Tek and Sun Microsystems. The project is operated by the Siberian Scientific Analytical Center and is supported by local operators RAO GazProm, SibNeft, and RosNeft. The center is built around GeoQuest's Finder data management system together with SeisDB and LogDB. Hardware includes a Sun Enterprise 5500 server and a StorageTek TimberWolf automated tape robot.