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.
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Updated: 12/10/2021
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