Exceptional Coverage - The frontier in the Canadian North is moving further and further north every year. Oil and gas companies are willing to make significant investments to explore remote areas that previously did not make financial sense. The high cost of exploration is not the only challenge faced by oil and gas companies working in Northern Canada.
The Polar region makes two-way communication and global positioning systems for oil and gas companies nearly impossible. Most high-orbit satellites, similar to those used by satellite phones, remain stationary over the equator in a geo-synchronous orbit. Their ability to reach around the curvature of the earth to provide coverage in Northern regions is nearly impossible. These high-orbit satellites also come with a price tag that is out of this world. Satellite phones when they have coverage, are very expensive due to the high bandwidth available.
GEOTrac works with a low-earth-orbit satellite network consisting of more than 36 satellites that circumnavigate the earth every 100 minutes. Traveling at more than 29,000 km/h on eight orbital planes, satellites are consistently passing 500 miles above the Canadian North.
This exceptional coverage combined with low-cost bandwith provides oil and gas companies with a cost-effective, reliable solution for two-way messaging and global positioning systems.
Rig Moves - GEOTrac has partnered with several trucking and hauling companies to provide efficient trafficking of trucks and equipment to dismantle and move oil derricks quickly and easily. Using global positioning to locate and identify truck types and capacity, central dispatchers have all of the information they need to coordinate large teams of specialized people and equipment.
Leased Equipment- Most oil and gas companies rely heavily on specialized third-party equipment as part of their exploration operations. Often companies will have hundreds of pieces of large equipment from various leasing companies sitting on their property. With GEOTrac, we can monitor the location and status of the equipment including operation time for maintenance. The loss of expensive equipment and savings from preventative maintenance can save companies thousands of dollars every year.
Geo Fencing and Leases (LSDs) - What is Geo Fencing? Every map point on earth has longitude and latitude coordinates. Global positioning systems can identify pre-defined areas by their longitude and latitude points. If a truck or piece of equipment enters a pre-defined area such as a LSD, a notification can be sent to central dispatch that a truck which has GEOTrac installed, has either entered or left that area. This is important to know if a company is monitoring closely the activity within that area.
PERF Button - Known in the oil and gas industry as perforation, it refers to the process of perforating the earth's surface as part of drilling for oil or gas. This perforation often happens using high-explosives. It is absolutely critical for all radio frequency devices to be shut off in the vicinity of a detonator for explosives. Detonators use a radio frequency device to detonate.
GEOTrac provides truck drivers the ability to shut off all radio frequency systems in their trucks to prevent any possible accidents. The PERF button is a manual override within the truck. Many oil and gas companies require strict adherence to the use of radio frequency devices on an oil and gas drilling sites.