CIDAI standard 1 : Company names
Purpose
- To uniquely identify each company.
- To cater for companies that change their names.
- To cater for companies that are taken over by other companies.
Specific requirements of standard
It must be possible to search, for example, for "All BP wells" whether the well operator was BP (Exploration), BP (something else), etc.
It must be possible to search for wells by current operator and original operator if this is affected by name change e.g. BP Ltd to BP Plc.
Standard
Each company will be allocated a sequential number which would be its key,
Each company be allocated a 9 (nine) character short name that would be used on reports and queries and could be used for searching
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