Annual Report May 2004
RBDMS .Net
GWPC and California Department of Oil and Gas and Geothermal Resources
(DOGGR) are upgrading RBDMS to N-tier technology (Figure 8) with a .net
front end. GWPC, DOGGR, and other state agencies propose to build
electronic business applications based on a .NET front-end user interface
for the DOE’s Energy 100 Award-winning Risk Based Data Management System
(RBDMS) data source and XML Web services. This project will slash the
costs of regulatory compliance by automating routine regulatory reporting
and permit notice review and by making it easier to exchange data with the
oil and gas industry—especially small, independent operators. Such
operators, who often do not have sophisticated in-house databases, will be
able to use a subset of the same RBDMS tools available to the agencies on
the desktop to file permit notices and production reports online. Once the
data passes automated quality control checks, the application will upload
the data into the agency’s RBDMS data source. The operators will also
have access to state agency datasets to focus exploration efforts and to
perform production forecasting, economic evaluations, and risk
assessments. With the ability to identify economically feasible oil and
gas prospects (including unconventional plays) over the Internet,
operators will minimize travel and other costs. Because GWPC will
coordinate these data sharing efforts with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM),
this project will improve access to public lands and make strides towards
reducing the duplicative reporting to which industry is now subject for
leases that cross jurisdictions. The resulting regulatory streamlining and
improved access to agency data will make more domestic oil and gas
available to the American public while continuing to safeguard
environmental assets. GWPC and DOGGR have identified several elements
which are critical to the implementation of RBDMS in California including
the ability to:
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Warehouse and
manipulate data associated with hundreds of thousands of production and
injection wells
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Provide access to 6
district offices, industry and other Internet users
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Ensure adequate
security
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Host e-commerce
applications including on-line data mining, reporting, and permitting
A key element of this project is the ability of other states to use
and build on the RBDMS.net successes in California.
In order to accomplish this, DOGGR is completing a thorough business
process review. This review is designed to eliminate any inefficiency in
both the regulatory process and data management. The team will design the
infrastructure components that will be fundamental to the application on a
programming level. Use cases and class diagrams to document business
processes have been prepared to guide the module coding. The base problem
domain object and base objects governing navigation, security, menu
control, form, and report behavior will be built through a collaborative
team approach. Other base class objects in RBDMS (e.g., Well, Inspection,
Permit, Violation, etc.) will also be re-designed for the .NET
environment.
The business use case functional requirement specifications and
business rules for Iteration 1 are complete and are available for review
at: http://calwims.consrv.ca.gov/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fDefault.aspx.
The use cases include a complete re-evaluation of the oil and gas
regulatory program in California. Changes to the regulatory program will
be made where necessary. Completed business use cases include: well
permitting (including electronic permitting), bonding, construction site
review, environmental inspection, idle well program, operator maintenance,
orphan well program, pipeline management, production audit, reporting, UIC
project, well file access, well information maintenance, and well mapping.
The business rules are the business practices or the Department of
Conservation’s (DOC) Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR)
with regard to the RBDMS.Net project. The business rules are organized
into groups based on the business processes defined in the Target
Organization Assessment: deserted well abandonment, Idle Well Management,
information access to customers, operator compliance, permitting,
production tracking, and well record maintenance. Each group may contain
subgroups of business rules. The business rules, in part, define how the
system will be developed to support a more efficient Notice-To-Permit
turnaround time and access to well information. The project team is now
working on the system use cases that will define data flow in RBDMS.net.
System use cases that have been completed include: well permitting
(including electronic permitting), bonding, construction site review,
environmental inspection, idle well program, operator maintenance, orphan
well program, pipeline management, reporting, UIC project, and well
information maintenance.
