Time tracking for oil and gas crews
Time tracking for oil and gas crews who move between remote sites.
Oil and gas time tracking has to follow crews between wellsites, pads and right-of-way, often far from town. ZeroBadge gives each worker a company-managed badge with its own cellular connection. Power on and the shift starts. Each report is placed at the location you've drawn, named by well, lease or AFE. When the badge loses coverage, it stores its reports and uploads them when it reconnects.
- No phone needed on location
- Stored reports upload after a coverage gap
- One month or more of battery life*
*Under qualifying operating conditions. Battery life varies with reporting frequency, signal conditions, usage, and configuration.
Oct 5–9
Multi-site
10 of 24
workers this week
Site transfers
3
Transit
19.0 h
- Riverside
- Harbor Yard
- Northgate
- Shop
- Cascade Supply
- Transit
Lena O. · Foreman
4 locations · 46.7 h
Riverside 0.8 · Harbor Yard 38.1 · Shop 3.4 · Cascade Supply 0.4 · Transit 4.0
Ben C. · Journeyman pipefitter
2 locations · 44.3 h
Riverside 36.3 · Harbor Yard 8.0
Mateo G. · Sheet metal journeyman
2 locations · 44.3 h
Riverside 36.3 · Harbor Yard 8.1
Rosa D. · Journeyman pipefitter
2 locations · 44.3 h
Riverside 36.3 · Harbor Yard 8.0
Kenji H. · Apprentice
3 locations · 47.8 h
Riverside 44.0 · Shop 0.8 · Cascade Supply 1.2 · Transit 1.8
+ 5 more workers with time at more than one location
What ZeroBadge does for you
How ZeroBadge helps Oil & Gas
One company badge per worker covers safety alerts, timekeeping, labor analytics and ZeroBadge AI. Here is what each part does in your line of work.
01
Worker safety
A pumper alone on a lease can press SOS, and the office sees which well pad it came from. The badge is not certified for hazardous locations.
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Workforce management
Know which crew is at which pad or right-of-way segment, and see late arrivals or missing crews on the dashboard before the day's schedule slips.
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Automated timekeeping
Each stop on a lease gets its own line, and so does the lease road between stops, with hours recorded from badge on to badge off.
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Workforce productivity
Set labor hours against each field or project and see where road time and waiting ate into the plan before the rotation ends.
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Location analytics
GPS works on open wellsites and right-of-way. Where signal drops, the badge stores reports and uploads them on reconnect with their original timestamps.
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Field logistics
Plan crews across pads and leases using the record of how they really moved, including drive time on lease roads between remote locations.
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AI advisory and analytics
Ask which pads took the most drive time last week and get a plain-English answer from your own records, with every figure linked to the reports behind it.
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Safety alerts support your safety program. They do not replace supervision or training, ZeroBadge does not monitor alerts or contact 911, and in an emergency workers should call 911.
Where oil and gas labor goes missing
The ticket says one location. The crew worked three and drove between them.
Operators and service companies move people across a field every day. The hours get coded to wells and leases later, by someone who wasn't there.
Hours coded to the wrong well
A crew finishes on one pad and moves to the next. The field ticket carries the first location for the whole day.
Long drives on lease roads
An hour each way to a remote location is paid time. On paper it disappears into the site hours or gets left off.
No signal at the location
Phone apps stall where coverage drops. The worker fills in the gap at the end of a long day, from memory.
Phones not allowed on site
Many locations restrict personal phones. An app-based time clock then depends on a rule nobody wants to bend.
One shift, several locations
Each stop gets its own line, and so does the drive between them.
The example company here is a construction contractor. The record works the same way at a wellsite. One shift per worker, split by every location the badge was placed at.
Draw each pad, wellsite or yard as a location and name it the way your accounting does. Time on location, time driving and time at the yard come out as separate lines. Long days that run past midnight split at midnight without losing minutes.
Tue Oct 6
- 6:30 AMShop & OfficeClocked in at the shop, loaded fittingsOn site · 25m
- 6:55 AMTransit to RiversideDrive to Riverside Medical PavilionTransit · 40m
- 7:35 AMRiverside Medical PavilionCrew hand-over with Marcus T.On site · 45m
- 8:20 AMTransit to Cascade SupplyDrive to Cascade Supply Co.Transit · 25m
- 8:45 AMCascade Supply Co.Vendor stop: valve pickupVendor · 25m
- 9:10 AMTransit to Harbor YardDrive to Harbor YardTransit · 30m
- 9:40 AMHarbor Yard Distribution CenterOn site with the Harbor Yard crewOn site · 6h 10m
Before the hours go out
Gaps and odd days are flagged for review, not guessed.
Some stretches have no reading at all. ZeroBadge marks that time as location unverified. It never invents a place. A day with a missing clock-out or a very long shift lands in the review queue.
When a badge comes back into coverage, its stored reports upload with their original times and the day fills in. The office clears what's left and approves the week. Approved hours are sent to your payroll provider automatically.
Exceptions
Timesheets
24
Generated
Shifts
120
Recorded
Open items
3
Before payroll
- Corrected
Late start · Hannah P. · Harbor Yard
Mon Oct 5 · Clocked in 7:24 AM; crew start 7:00 AM (24 min after).
- Corrected
Late start · Connor J. · Northgate
Wed Oct 7 · Clocked in 6:52 AM; crew start 6:30 AM (22 min after).
- Needs review
Missing clock-out · Ivan B. · Harbor Yard
Thu Oct 8 · No clock-out recorded. Shift closed at the last badge report (2:55 PM) pending supervisor review.
- Needs review
Late start · Kenji H. · Riverside
Thu Oct 8 · Clocked in 7:18 AM; crew start 7:00 AM (18 min after).
- Needs review
Early finish · Olivia V. · Northgate
Fri Oct 9 · Clocked out 12:15 PM; scheduled finish 1:30 PM (75 min before).
Approved hours go to
- Your payroll provider
- CSVexport
- Excelexport
- PDFexport
On location
What your field supervisors will ask.
Remote coverage
The badge needs cellular coverage to report live. Out of coverage it keeps recording and uploads stored reports when it reconnects.
Right-of-way
Draw the stretch of pipeline right-of-way a crew is working as its own location. Redraw it as the work moves.
Badges at camp
The office sees battery and signal for every badge. A low-battery alert fires at 25% by default, so a badge left off the charger at camp gets noticed before the next hitch.
Contract crews
Issue a badge to each contract hand for the job. Reassign it when they leave. Their hours sit beside your own crew's.
Rolling it out
Start with one field and one crew.
- 01
Draw the field
Add each pad, wellsite and yard by address or by placing it on the map. Name it by well, lease or AFE.Office · first day
- 02
Issue badges
Each operator, hand and contract worker gets a badge tied to their name. No phone setup.Field office · first week
- 03
Work the rotation
Crews power on at the start of the shift and off at the end. Moves between locations record themselves.Crews · daily
- 04
Review, approve, send
Clear the flagged items and approve the period. Approved hours are sent to your payroll provider automatically.Payroll · each period
Go deeper
Where oil and gas companies usually look next.
- SolutionTime tracking without phonesA company-managed badge instead of an app on a worker's personal phone.
- SolutionMulti-jobsite time trackingSite transfers, transit and supply runs inside one shift record.
- SolutionPayroll integrationApproved hours sent to your payroll provider automatically. Nobody re-keys a timecard.
- Industry guideUtilities & EnergyLine crews, substations, generation sites and storm restoration, with hours by site.
- Industry guideConstructionGeneral and specialty contractors with crews across several jobsites, the shop and the supply house.
- Platform tourThe platformA walkthrough of what the office sees: crews, jobsites, timesheets, analytics and payroll.
ZeroBadge AI
Ask ZeroBadge AI about your field crews
ZeroBadge AI is read-only. It answers from your badge records, and your admins control who can use it.
You ask
Which pads took the most drive time last week?
Crew B drove 11h 40m to the Cedar Draw pad, 19% of its recorded time. Drive time is kept separate from time on location.
You ask
Which crews had gaps in their reports yesterday?
Two of 14 crew members had gaps over an hour, both near Dry Fork. Stored reports uploaded at 6:12 PM, and the gaps are flagged for review, not filled in.
You ask
How many hours were recorded at each pad on the Monday rotation?
The rotation logged 46 hours at Cedar Draw, 31 at Dry Fork and 22 at Red Mesa, plus 9 hours of lease-road travel. Each line links to its shifts.
Answers come only from your company's own records. Every number links to the records behind it. Read-only; admins control access.
How ZeroBadge AI worksQuestions
Questions oil and gas companies ask.
What happens when a crew works where there's no cell coverage?
Can hours be coded by well, lease or AFE?
Is the badge certified for hazardous locations?
Is drive time between locations kept separate from time on location?
Do crews need to carry a phone?
Get started
See your wellsites, your drives and your crews in one week's record.
We'll walk through ZeroBadge with your locations, your rotations and your payroll process in mind.
What we will walk through
- 01How a crew's day across several locations is recorded
- 02What happens when a badge loses coverage
- 03Weekly timesheets, review and the payroll integration