User Guide for Vendors¶

Information Required Before Initiating Data Upload¶

Required Metadata	Data Type	Description	Example
Vendor Support email address	Text	Email address where Equinor can address technical questions to vendor	support@vendor.com
Data loader email address	Text	A person in vendor organisation who will deliver the data to Equinor. Otherwise known as "Affiliate user"	A_Data_Loader@vendor.com
Data loader mobile telephone number	Number	Telephone number of vendor who will deliver the data. A SMS will be sent for confirmation of authenticity	(country-code): 12-34-56-78
Vendor name	Text	The company responsible for acquiring the data.	ACME.co

Data type specific requirements for data upload can be found under Data Formats

To Retrieve storage account SAS URL¶

The storage account shared access signature (SAS URL) is retreived from Omnia Portal by following the below steps:

Browse Omnia Portal
Log in using the affiliate/guest user
Navigate to Data -> Data Share -> Data Shares
Identify the Data Share for which you want to retrieve SAS URL
Click Details for given data share
On the right hand side, at the bottom of the properties list click Generate New SAS URL
SAS URL is displayed, copy the information and treat it as a password/secret
Use the SAS URL to establish connection to the storage account using tools like Azure Storage Explorer or AzCopy (see below)
Every time a new SAS URL is generated, the existing SAS URL will be revoked. SAS URL will have a expiry date, defined by the data share requestor.

The vendor will be notified with data share details and SAS token over the email

Connect by using a shared acesss signature URI¶

A shared access signature (SAS) URI is an unambiguous identifier that's used to access your Azure Storage resources.

With this connection method, you'll use a SAS URI for the required storage account. You'll need a SAS URI whether you want to use a file share, table, queue, or blob container. You can get a SAS URI either from the Azure portal or from Storage Explorer.

To add a SAS connection:

Open Storage Explorer.

Storage Explorer

Connect to your Azure Storage account.

To connect to an individual resource, select the Connect button in the left-hand toolbar. Then follow the instructions for the resource type you want to connect to.

In the Select Resource panel of the Connect to Azure Storage dialog, select the resource you want to connect to.

Storage Account

Select the connection type: Shared access signature URI (SAS).

Select Shared access signature (SAS) and Click on Next.

Shared access signature

Provide a meaningful name and Service URL for the connection.

Enter a display name for your connection and the SAS URI for the resource. Select Next.

Connection Information

Review and verify the connection details

Review your connection information in the Summary panel. If the connection information is correct, select Connect.

When you've added a connection, it appears in the resource tree as a new node. You'll find the connection node in this branch: Local & attached > Storage Accounts > Attached Container > Service.

Create an account SAS - Azure Storage | Microsoft Learn

Creating a blob container¶

Manage Azure Blob Storage resources with Storage Explorer | Microsoft Learn

Upload a document to Azure blob storage¶

Click on the Upload button shown in the right-side pane of the newly created blob container.

On selecting the blob to be used for uploading the files from the left menu, main pane will display the contents if any.

From the Top Menu, we can select the Upload option as shown in the figure below:

Blob storage

You will get 2 options; one is the upload folder and another one is upload files. Choose your option according to your data to be uploaded.

upload files

Note: Please upload the survey files directly in the dss directory without creating any subfolder.

survey data

Some Important References and Links¶

Azure Storage Explorer¶

AzCopy¶

Note: For any queries connect to emnbdatasupport@equinor.com