The Mississippi State Oil & Gas Board (MSOGB) is responsible for the regulation of oil and gas resources in Mississippi. Since 1998, the MSOGB has utilized the original version of the Risk-Based Data Management System (RBDMS), developed by the Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) and its partners, to manage its natural resources. However, within the past decade, the RBDMS application in use nationwide has undergone multiple upgrades and now supports a variety of e-commerce applications on the .NET/SQL Server 2008 platform. The MSOGB, wishing to take advantage of the new enterprise and Web solutions features offered in the newest versions of RBDMS, contracted with Coordinate Solutions and Virtual Engineering Services (VES) through GWPC to upgrade their existing system.

Coordinate Solutions' role in the project included customization of RBDMS Data Mining application, customization of the RBDMS eForm application, and development of the RBDMS.NET application.

The Data Mining application (available here) allows the public to search and retrieve data on Mississippi's 30,000+ wells and 2,000+ operators, including history, construction, permitting, production, injection, and scanned images. Users of the website can locate information either through map navigation or text search. Data Mining is written in ASP.NET, pulls data from SQL Server 2005, and uses custom development based around the MapServer project for mapping.

The eForm application, when placed into production, will allow operators to submit permit to drill over the internet. For more information on the eForm project, visit the Colorado eForm project page.

RBDMS.Net is a wholesale overhaul of the GWPC's classic RBDMS system (developed previously in Microsoft Access). The new system is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) desktop application that MSOGB staff use for most regulatory activities including permitting, inspection, receipt of funds, and mapping. The application uses LINQ to SQL for data access from MSOGB's SQL Server 2005 database, merge replication to allow detached use of thetion (including GIS) by field inspectors, a dynamic user interface generation module allowing staff to customize their user interfaces, and SQL Reporting Service RDLC's for data output.

The Web Data Delivery System developed by Coordinate Solutions and VES utilizes MapServer, VB.NET, ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server to provide industry and the public with up-to-date information from the Board’s oil and gas database.