DRILLING & ENERGY-SERVICES TRACKING
One rate per asset. Every pad. Every rig and tank.
GPS and telematics for drilling and energy-services rental fleets — billed per asset, not per site. Engine hours on powered rigs, compressors, generators, and light towers from $13/month; rugged battery GPS with tamper alerts and theft recovery on unpowered tanks, trailers, and pipe racks from $10/month.
The short answer
What is the best way to track drilling and energy-services rental equipment?
Track drilling and energy-services rental equipment with GPS and telematics billed per asset, not per site — because energy-services jobs run across dozens of transient well pads that appear and disappear with the work, and per-site pricing punishes exactly that pattern. Hapn tracks a mixed fleet on one platform: powered units (drill rigs, air compressors, generators, light towers) get hardwired telematics with engine hours and utilization on the $13/month equipment tier, and unpowered units (frac and water tanks, pipe and equipment trailers, pipe racks) get a long-life battery GPS tracker on the $10/month asset tier. The battery trackers are rugged, weatherproof, and hidden-mount, last multiple years on a single battery, support ping-on-demand for a live fix during a recovery, and fire a tamper alert if removed. Two ways to buy: a 3-year plan with all hardware free, or no-contract month-to-month where you own the hardware.
- Billed per asset, not per site — no location premium for dozens of transient well pads
- Powered rigs, compressors, generators, and light towers: hardwired telematics, engine hours from $13/mo
- Unpowered tanks, trailers, and pipe racks: long-life battery GPS from $10/mo
- Ping-on-demand forces a live location fix during an active theft recovery
- Tamper alert fires the moment a battery tracker is removed from an unattended site
- Where-is-it visibility, on-rent vs off-rent status, and yard reconciliation on one map
- Tracks the surface equipment layer — not tools in the hole or downhole instrumentation
- All hardware free on a 3-year plan, or own it outright month-to-month
Powered rigs, compressors, generators, and light towers track on Hapn’s equipment tracking tier, while unpowered tanks, trailers, and pipe racks track on asset tracking, with Hapn Zones (BLE) for laydown and pipe yards. For the deep dive, see drilling-services rental tracking.
Tracking gear across remote sites too? See generator tracking — engine hours and runtime billing on powered units — or trailer tracking, battery GPS with tamper alerts and theft recovery for unpowered units.
Key terms
How drilling-services tracking actually works
Six terms that define how energy-services operators track a mixed powered and unpowered fleet.
Per-asset vs per-site pricing
Per-asset pricing bills one flat rate for each tracked unit no matter where it goes. Per-site pricing bills by location or "site." Energy-services work spreads a fleet across dozens of transient well pads that come and go with the job, so per-site software charges more every time a crew opens a pad — punishing exactly your operating pattern. Hapn bills per asset, so pads are free.
Battery GPS vs hardwired telematics
A battery GPS tracker carries its own multi-year power cell and mounts to an unpowered asset with no wiring — the right fit for frac tanks, water tanks, pipe trailers, and racks. Hardwired telematics splices into a powered unit’s electrical system for live engine data and only makes sense on rigs, compressors, generators, and light towers. A mixed energy-services fleet uses both, on one platform.
Engine-hours utilization
Engine hours are the actual runtime a powered unit logs, read from hardwired telematics. On drill rigs, air compressors, and generators, engine hours drive two things rental operators care about: utilization (which units earn versus sit idle across pads) and hours-based maintenance (service by real runtime, not a guessed calendar). It is the powered-unit equivalent of a truthful odometer.
Ping-on-demand location
Ping-on-demand lets you force an immediate live GPS fix instead of waiting for a battery tracker’s next scheduled report. Battery trackers report on an interval to preserve power; when a tank or trailer goes missing from a remote pad, a ping pulls its current position on demand — the difference between a fresh location and an hours-old one during an active recovery.
Tamper / removal alert
A tamper alert fires the moment a battery tracker is detached or pried off a unit. On remote, unattended well pads where nobody is watching overnight, that means you are notified immediately instead of silently going dark — preserving the last known location and the chance to act before the asset disappears. Hapn’s trackers are hidden-mount to make them hard to find in the first place.
Laydown-yard zone tracking (BLE)
Hapn Zones uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons and cellular gateways — no WiFi required — to show which units sit in which laydown or pipe yard between jobs. Where dozens of tanks, pipe racks, and small tools are staged tightly and a GPS fix per unit is overkill, BLE keeps the whole yard reconciled and visible before the next pad opens.
WHAT ENERGY-SERVICES FLEETS USE IT FOR
From scattered pads to one map and real engine hours
The jobs an energy-services rental operator actually buys tracking to do.
One rate per asset across every well pad
Energy-services fleets scatter across dozens of transient pads that open and close with the job. Per-site software bills more every time you open a pad; Hapn bills per asset, so adding pads never adds a location premium. See every rig, tank, and light tower across all active sites on one map, no matter how many pads are live this week.
Prevent theft and recover from remote sites
Remote, unattended well pads are soft targets — pumps, tanks, and small powered units walk off overnight with nobody watching. A rugged, hidden-mount battery tracker with after-hours geofence alerts, ping-on-demand location, and a tamper alert stops the theft or recovers the unit, and hardwired units flag movement when they should be parked.
Bill and maintain powered units on engine hours
Drill rigs, air compressors, generators, and light towers earn on runtime. Hardwired telematics captures real engine hours so you bill on actual use, catch units running unbilled, and trigger maintenance by hours instead of a guessed calendar — turning powered iron into dollar-utilization you can see across pads.
Track unpowered tanks, trailers, and pipe
Frac and water tanks, pipe and equipment trailers, and pipe racks have no engine to wire into. A long-life battery GPS tracker rides each unit for years with no charging, answering where-is-it and on-rent status for the passive half of the fleet on the same platform as the powered units.
Know on-rent vs off-rent and cut idle iron
See which units are out earning on a customer’s pad and which are sitting idle in the yard, without calling branches or chasing a paper contract. On-rent and off-rent status next to live location and engine hours is the everyday view an energy-services rental desk runs on — and the fastest way to move idle units to where demand is.
Reconcile laydown and pipe yards with BLE Zones
Between jobs, tanks, pipe racks, and small tools stage tightly in a laydown or pipe yard where a GPS fix per unit is overkill. Hapn Zones (BLE beacons) shows which units are in which yard or row — no WiFi required — so multi-yard operators keep the whole yard reconciled on one platform before the next pad opens.
THE PROBLEM
What untracked energy-services iron costs you
Transient pads break per-site pricing, remote sites invite theft, and powered units run hours nobody bills.
Per-site pricing punishes transient pads
Energy-services work opens and closes well pads constantly. Software priced per site or per location bills more every time a crew stands up a new pad — so the pricing model fights your operating model. You pay a location premium to watch equipment that was never tied to a fixed site in the first place.
Theft from remote, unattended sites
Pumps, tanks, generators, and small powered units sit on remote pads with nobody watching overnight. Without a tracker, an after-hours theft is invisible until a crew shows up to a short load — and there is no live location to hand the police for a recovery.
Equipment theft costs U.S. businesses up to ~$1B/year (NER/NICB).
Unbilled hours and unseen idle iron
Powered units run hours nobody bills for, and units sit idle at a finished pad while another job turns rentals away. Without engine hours and on-rent status across every pad and yard, utilization is a guess and maintenance is a calendar instead of real runtime.
HOW IT WORKS
Live across every pad and yard in days
Tell us your fleet
Drill rigs, air compressors, generators, light towers, pumps, frac and water tanks, pipe and equipment trailers, and support vehicles — plus the yards they stage in between jobs. We recommend the right mix of hardwired telematics for powered units, battery GPS for unpowered ones, and BLE Zones for laydown yards.
Install and forget
Hardwire telematics on powered rigs, compressors, generators, and light towers for engine hours; attach a rugged, weatherproof, hidden-mount battery tracker to each unpowered tank, trailer, and pipe rack — no wiring, multi-year battery. Fit it once and leave it across job after job.
Track, bill, alert, recover
See live location and on-rent status across every pad and yard, bill powered units on real engine hours, get after-hours and tamper alerts on remote sites, and use ping-on-demand for a fresh fix during a recovery. Push it all to your rental software via the open API.
CAPABILITIES
Per-asset pricing, engine hours, theft recovery, and yard zones
Per-asset pricing across every pad
One flat rate per tracked unit, no matter how many transient well pads it moves between. Multi-site energy-services operators pay no location premium — the opposite of per-site software that bills more every time you open a pad.
Billed per asset, not per site
Hardwired telematics & engine hours
Live runtime from powered rigs, air compressors, generators, and light towers. Bill on actual engine hours, catch unbilled runtime, and trigger maintenance by hours instead of a calendar — dollar-utilization you can see across every active pad.
Rugged battery GPS for unpowered iron
A weatherproof, hidden-mount tracker rides frac and water tanks, pipe trailers, and racks on its own multi-year battery — no wiring, no charging. Fit it once and leave it for years while it answers where-is-it and on-rent status.
Multi-year battery life
Ping-on-demand & tamper alerts
Force a live location fix the moment a unit goes missing from a remote pad instead of waiting for the next scheduled report, and get a tamper alert the instant a tracker is removed — so an active recovery starts from a fresh position, not an hours-old one.
After-hours theft & geofence alerts
Geofence each pad and yard and get motion and after-hours alerts when a unit moves when it should be still. The fastest way to catch a theft off an unattended site before the asset is gone, with location ready for recovery.
BLE Zones & one-platform fleet
Hapn Zones (BLE beacons) reconciles tanks and pipe staged tightly in a laydown yard — no WiFi required. Vehicles, powered equipment, and unpowered assets all run on one platform under a single login, with an open API into your rental software.
No WiFi required
COMPARISON
Drilling-services tracking: per-asset vs per-site software
Most oilfield and asset software charges per site or per location — the wrong model for transient well pads — and splits powered and unpowered units across tools. Hapn charges per asset, runs the whole mixed fleet on one platform, and publishes its pricing.
| Feature | Hapn (per-asset) | Per-site oilfield / asset software |
|---|---|---|
| Per-asset pricing across transient pads | $10–$18/mo per asset | Per-site / per-location |
| Battery GPS for unpowered tanks & trailers | Varies | |
| Engine hours on powered rigs & compressors | Varies | |
| On-demand location ping | Rare | |
| Tamper / removal alert | Rare | |
| After-hours theft alerts on remote sites | Varies | |
| BLE laydown / pipe yard zones | Rare | |
| Vehicles + equipment + assets on one platform | — | |
| Published, transparent pricing | Quote-based | |
| Open API to rental software | Limited |
Pricing
Two ways to buy — pick your capital plan
Transparent per-asset pricing for a mixed energy-services fleet — billed per asset, not per site. Lead with the free-hardware term, or stay flexible month-to-month.
All hardware free — zero upfront capex
Hardwired telematics, battery GPS trackers, BLE Zones beacons, and gateways are included at no cost on a 3-year term. The strongest reason energy-services fleets switch off a per-site quote-and-deploy vendor — no capital outlay to put tracking on every rig, tank, and light tower.
Buy hardware, stay flexible
Purchase devices outright and run month-to-month — you own the hardware. Scale tracking up and down as rigs and tanks move on and off jobs, with no long-term commitment.
Per-asset starting prices
- Asset & vehicle tracking (battery GPS — tanks, trailers, pipe racks)$10/mo
- Equipment tracking (GPS + utilization / engine hours — powered units)$13/mo
- Equipment telematics (deeper runtime + engine data)$18/mo
- OEM integrationsContact us
Per asset, not per site — multi-pad operators pay no location premium. Quote-based with ~24-hour turnaround; volume discounts available for larger fleets. See full plans and pricing, or the per-asset vs per-site pricing breakdown.
“We run gear across dozens of pads that open and close every month, and per-site software was bleeding us. Billing per asset — with engine hours on the rigs and battery trackers on the tanks, all on one screen — is how we finally see the whole fleet.”
Operations Manager
Multi-yard energy-services rental company
Drilling & energy-services tracking FAQ
Track it with GPS and telematics billed per asset, not per site, so dozens of transient well pads never add a location premium. Hapn runs a mixed fleet on one platform: powered rigs, compressors, generators, and light towers get hardwired telematics and engine hours from $13/month, while unpowered tanks, trailers, and pipe racks get long-life battery GPS from $10/month with tamper alerts and ping-on-demand recovery.
Last updated July 2026
