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* The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate's Fact-Pages. Description of download file.
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* CONTENTS: Business area. General information.
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* CSV SPECIFICATIONS:
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* - column delimiter  : ,
* - text qualifier    : "
* - decimal separator : .
* - date format       : dd.mm.yyyy
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* COLUMN SPECIFICATIONS:
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* column name                    datatype       description
* .............................. .............. ........................................................
* business_area_name             varchar(40)    The designation of the business arrangement based area.
*
* business_area_kind             varchar(40)    Kind of business arrangement based area.
*                                               Examples:
*                                               - UNITIZED
*                                               - SLIDING SCALE
*                                               - PARCELL
*                                               - SEISMIC AREA
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* date_approved                  date           The date the business arrangement based area was approved 
*                                               by the authorities.
*
* date_valid_from                date           The date the business arrangement based area is valid from.
*
* date_valid_to                  date           The date the business arrangement based area is valid to
*                                               according to the approval of the authorities.
*                                               NULL indicates that the business area is active.
*
* date_generated                 date           The date the download file was generated from the NPD's
*                                               databases.
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* NPDID_business_area            bigint         NPD's unique business area id.
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* HISTORY:
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* date       changed by  description
* .......... ........... ...................................................................................
* 01.01.2003 OHO/NPD     Initial version
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* dd.mm.yyyy nnn/ccc     description of changes
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