FactPages and FactMaps - technical information

• Maintenance of external services

  22/02/2024 Tuesday, February 27th from 09:00 and throughout the day, there may be some downtime on factpages and factmaps due to upgrading and maintenance.

• Name change and open data

  16/11/2023 The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate is changing its name to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate.

• Downtime on external services

  29/09/2023 On Sunday 1 October 2023, NPD's external services will experience downtime from 10 am - 6 pm.

• Norwegian Petroleum Directorate to update quality-assured geochemical database

  28/09/2023 The geochemical database will be updated twice per year with geochemical data from wells that have recently been released in Diskos.

• Maintenance

  11/08/2023 On Monday 14 August the FactPages will be unavailable due to system maintenance from 18.00 to 21.00.

• Maintenance

  21/06/2023 On 26 June 2023, FactMaps and FactPages may be unstable and partly unavailable due to system maintenance.

• Maintenance of Meldesystem

  07/06/2023 "Meldesystem" – The reporting system for geophysical surveys will be unavailable on 12 June 2023 due to system maintenance.

• Maintenance

  26/04/2023 On 2 May 2023, FactMaps and maps on FactPages may be unstable and partly unavailable due to system maintenance. Maintenance will take place between 09:00-14:00.

• Maintenance of the FactPages

  12/04/2023 In addition to the MapServices update 13th April, the FactPages will have some minor updates and may therefore become unavailable part of this day.

• Map services – updates

  30/03/2023 Updated changelog with information about changes.

• Upgrade: FactPages and associated services

  12/12/2022 A minor upgrade of the FactPages and changes to the fact services will be made on Wednesday 14 December. The FactPages and services may therefore become unavailable part of this day.

• Do you or your organization use data from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate?

  05/12/2022 In order to achieve our goal of becoming an even better manager and facilitator of data, the NPD has engaged Menon Economics to better understand which data sets from the NPD are used by whom and what they are used for.

• Maintenance map services

  20/09/2022 Due to migration to a new storage location, all OD's maps in ArcGIS Online (AGOL) will be completely or partially unavailable on 28 September 2022.

• New functionality on FactPages and Factmaps

  02/09/2022 The upgrade will be done Wednesday 7th September, and the pages will be unavailable part of this day.

• Updated map and services regarding the release of seabed data

  10/06/2022 Digital data acquired by the NPD, and in collaboration with the academia, was 02.06.22 released to the public.

• First yearly update of quality-assured geochemical database for the North Sea

  23/02/2022 The geochemical database will be updated twice per year with geochemical data from wells that have recently been released in Diskos.

• FactMaps – operational

  14/12/2021 FactMaps and related services are now operational again.

• FactMaps are not available

  11/12/2021 Due to preventive maintenance, the FactMaps are currently not available.

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

  06/12/2021 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.

• Norwegian Petroleum Directorate to update quality-assured geochemical database for the North Sea

  29/11/2021 The geochemical database will be updated twice per year with geochemical data from wells that have recently been released in Diskos.

• Upgrade might lead to downtime

  18/08/2021 The FactPages may be unavailable Thursday 19 August from 3-9 pm due to an upgrade to include licence status reports.

• Planned downtime for Factpages related to minor change

  16/06/2021 The FactPages may be unavailable Thursday 17 June from 15-21.

• The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate grants access to quality-assured geochemical database for the North Sea

  13/04/2021 Several different types of geochemical data are collected when wells are drilled. The NPD is now granting access to a quality-assured database for geochemical data from exploration wells in the North Sea.

• Planned downtime for FactPages, FactMaps and the reporting system on Thursday 25 March from 16-21

  24/03/2021 Maintenance Thursday 25 March from 16-21 leads to planned downtime for FactPages, FactMaps and the reporting system.

• Minor change on Factpages

  18/02/2021 Today, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) is launching a new system for reporting geophysical surveys on the Norwegian continental shelf.

• Upgrade of FactPages and FactMaps

  11/01/2021 January 19th, a new version of the FactPages will be realeased. This version is customized both for PC, tablet and mobile phone. At the same time, upgrades are being made to the FactMaps. The solutions will be taken down January 19th at 9 and will be down for a few hours.

• Map services – updated changelog

  09/03/2020 Updated changelog with information about new datalayer, "Wellbore, all" in our chartservices.

• FactPages – minor upgrade

  03/03/2020 5th of March, a minor upgrade will be done. The FactPages will therefore be unavailable from 18.00-21.00 this day.

• Map services – updated changelog

  14/10/2019 Updated changelog with information about attribute-changes between new and old downloadable CSV/shape files.

• FactPages and FactMaps – old versions are removed

  02/10/2019 3rd of October the old versions of FactPages and FactMaps will be replaced with the new versions launched 6th of June 2019. In connection with this, work will be ongoing so that both new and old pages can be inaccessible parts of the day.

• Upgrade of FactPages and FactMaps

  06/06/2019 Starting today, we are switching to a new, upgraded version of our FactPages and FactMaps. There will be a three-month transition period, after which the old pages will no longer be available.

• Challenges when using FactPages and FactMaps

  30/04/2019 Some problems are currently being experienced when using FactPages and FactMaps.

• Information about launch of new www.npd.no

  11/03/2019 Launch of new www.npd.no and and how this temporarily affects the FactPages and FactMaps.

• FactMap service – phaseout

  10/10/2017 NPD's old FactMap WMS/WFS will be terminated October 24th 2017. New FactMaps WMS/WFS have been rolled out.

• Wellbores with status «will never be drilled»

  25/07/2017 Wellbores with status «will never be drilled» will soon be visible in the category “not entered.”

• FactMaps – New Map Theme

  29/06/2017 NPDs FactMaps are now supplemented with Overview Maps from the Norwegian Mapping Authority’s Web Map Service on Nautical Charts, that is the 300 and 500 series.

• FactPages - maintenance

  22/11/2016 Maintenance of NPDs FactPages will be done Thursday 24th of November. The pages  might be  unstable or unavailable from 15.00 this day and potential rest of the day.