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Postponed to Monday 13 December – Drilling permits are included on FactPages and FactMaps

12/6/2021 The planned upgrade has been postponed until Monday 13 December from 15:00, and the pages with associated services may therefore have downtime this afternoon and evening.

Minor changes and updates will also be released.

FactPages

Page view

  • Wellbore: Future drilling permits for exploration wells. These will be displayed under the tab "Wellbore" / "Page view" / "Exploration" / "Drilling permits".
  • Surveys: A link has been made to "Map – real time tracking" from the various surveys. This map shows where the seismic vessels are in almost real time.

Table view

  • Wellbore: A new attribute is included in "Wellbore" / "Table view" / "Other". The name of the attribute "Wellbore alias name" is included – tag name "wlbAliasName". A correction has also been made under "Exploration" / "All – long list" and "Development" for the attributes "prlNpdidProdLicenceTarget" and "wlbLicenceTargetName".


FactMaps

See open data.

Page view

  • Wellbore: Future drilling permits for exploration wells available in the FactMaps and services.
  • Surveys: A link has been made to "Map – real time tracking" from the various surveys.
  • Geology group expanded: New layer for CO2-atlas. A link has been made to "Map – real time tracking" from the various surveys.
  • Geology data now available for download as FGDB.

 

Contact

Ola Anders Skauby

Director Communication, public affairs and emergency response

Tel: +47 905 98 519

Updated: 12/10/2021

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