Maintenance of external services
2/22/2024 Tuesday, February 27th from 09:00 and throughout the day, there may be some downtime on factpages and factmaps due to upgrading and maintenance.
Factpages
- Ability to search for objects based on NPDID
- Wellbore / Table view – Tag wlbEwDesDeg has been corrected to wlbEwDecDeg.
- Affected tableviews:
- https://factpages.sodir.no/nb-no/wellbore/TableView/C02Storage
- https://factpages.sodir.no/nb-no/wellbore/TableView/With/Coordinates
- https://factpages.sodir.no/nb-no/wellbore/TableView/Development
- https://factpages.sodir.no/nb-no/wellbore/TableView/Exploration/AllShort
- https://factpages.sodir.no/nb-no/wellbore/TableView/Exploration/All
- https://factpages.sodir.no/nb-no/wellbore/TableView/Exploration/CurrentYear
- https://factpages.sodir.no/nb-no/wellbore/TableView/Exploration/Last10Years
- https://factpages.sodir.no/nb-no/wellbore/TableView/Exploration/LastYear
- https://factpages.sodir.no/nb-no/wellbore/TableView/Other
- Wellbore / Table view / All. New report that shows all wellbores, both exploration, development and others. Includes all attributes.
- Licence / Page view. Extended with "Other" wellbores drilled in the licence, not only exploration and development wellbores.
- Company/Page view /General information is extended with different statuses about the company.
- Field / Page view, extended with "Plan for Development and Operation (PDO)". New tableview "Plan for Development and Operation (PDO)".
Factmaps and services
- Updated production method for REST-services. Content should not differ beyond reported changes here.
- New table
- Field_PDO_hst - overview of all PDOs, layer 518.
o Layer 518, Field - PDO – History - Bug fixes
- REST - Attribute wlbEwDesDeg corrected to wlbEwDecDeg, applies to layerID 201, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207
- REST - Attribute FACTWAREHOUSE_DBO_BLOCK_AREA corrected to blcArea, applies to layerID 802
- REST - Attribute blcMainAreamain_area to blcMainArea
- REST - Attribute res_incl_in_disc_fact_page_url corrected to dscResInclInDiscoveryFactPageUrl, applies to layerID 503, 504, 505
- REST - Attribute fixed_or_moveable corrected to wlbDrillingFacilityFixedOrMoveable, applies to layerID 201, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207
- FGDB - Attribute fldNpdidField is available again in the Discovery table in downloadable file geodatabase
- FGDB - Removed table in downloadable FGDB - utlyste_blk_tothist. replaced with licencing_activity_announced_hst in a previous update
Also, see Factmap – changelog that will be updated during the maintenance.
Contact
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Updated: 2/22/2024
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