Licensing and distribution of electronic data, namely the distribution of geographic, well, permit, production, and completion data for natural resource sources over a world wide network; offering an on-line, subscription based service for providing well, permit, production, or completion data for natural resource sources, such as oil or gas wells, as well as real property information on such natural resource activities; providing geographic and geologic data studies; providing geographic and geologic data studies over a world wide network, data applications, data manipulation, and display of information related to the functions run on the data related to the natural resource sources over a world wide network; offering notice services for the various natural resource industries, such as the oil and gas industries, as well as communication services, forums, and areas on and in an electronic forum for bidding and soliciting bids on properties, services, and prospects for subscribers, advertisers, industry contractors, resource owners, and real property owners over a worldwide network; dissemination of electronic data to users utilizing portable computing devices over interconnected networks with wireless communications