Spotlight on oil, gas and mining

Winter can be a busy period for fleet-reliant businesses in the oil, gas and mining sectors. As demand for energy reaches its peak, dark nights and changing weather can also throw up challenges to running an efficient and streamlined mobile operation.

Expanding to meet increased demand and overcome seasonal challenges is not an option for most businesses. That’s why it’s vital to use every available resource at your disposal – to ensure you can stay productive and continue to serve your customers.

Many oil, gas and mining companies turn to GPS-powered fleet management technologies for help. With a fleet tracking solution in place, you can spot inefficiencies hiding in your data, help keep your vehicles and staff safe, and potentially increase the profitability of your jobs. Here’s how...

Monitor hazardous shipments 

Safety is paramount at all times in the oil and gas business – but never more so than when transporting hazardous shipments by road. With a duty of care to your staff and the public, you must take all necessary steps to ensure safe transit. With live maps and geofence technology, GPS fleet tracking can help.

• Create virtual perimeters: by placing virtual geofences around real world locations, you can receive alerts whenever a vehicle strays off track or is operated outside of working hours. With the live map function, you can quickly locate the vehicle in question and take appropriate action.
• Create safer drivers: reckless and unsafe driving is bad news for any fleet business. But when you’re transporting potentially combustible cargo, the consequences can be much more severe. With data gathered on speeding, late braking and more, you can create driver safety scorecards. This allows you to reward top performers and incentivise others into safer habits behind the wheel.
• Coach out idling: idling not only increases fuel consumption and adds to engine wear and tear, it’s also a potential safety hazard in the oil and gas industry. Any unnecessary heat or vapour build up is always best avoided, and fleet tracking can help. With easy access dashboards showing idling rates across your vehicles, you can help coach this potentially harmful behaviour out of your operation.

Protect your assets

Your vehicles are only one part of your fleet operation. Many oil, gas and mining companies also rely on rigs, excavators, loaders and much more. By adding an asset tracking solution to your fleet management setup, you can monitor all equipment and machinery, both powered and non-powered, alongside your vehicles.

• Find your assets fast: with a single view of your operation, you can analyse information on an asset or group of assets in just a few clicks. View current location, route history, status, usage information and more to make faster, better informed business decisions.
• React in the moment: a live map showing every asset in your fleet makes it easy to spot and intervene in unauthorised use. In the event of theft, you can use near real-time location data to track and potentially recover stolen or misused assets.
• Close gaps in your knowledge: an asset tracking solution tells you more than where your assets are located. You can also see when and how much they are being used. When you track the utilisation of every asset – vehicles, equipment, machinery and more – you can more easily track ROI and manage resources across your operation.

Get safety, efficiency and security in the field – with Verizon Connect

The oil, gas and mining industry is famous for its fluctuations. But whatever’s going on in the market, you need the tools at your disposal to serve your customers. With a comprehensive GPS tracking solution in place, you can drive efficiency across your operation and protect what matters most to your business. 

Verizon Connect’s suite of applications puts powerful fleet management tools at your fingertips, helping you improve and automate your process, grow revenues and react faster to the changing demands of your industry.   

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