Walkthrough

Drill program monitoring

Once the drills turn, the questions never stop: how many meters this week? which rig is behind? what did we burn in bits and mud? Drill program monitoring answers them from daily shift reports — one small record per drill per shift — instead of from a spreadsheet someone maintains at 9pm.

Setting up the program

A few minutes on the drilling pages before the first shift:

  • Drills and contractors — register each rig and the company running it. Contractor staff can be given contractor-scoped accounts: they see their own rigs and their own shift reports, and nothing else of your project.
  • Activity types — what a shift's hours get logged against (drilling, moving, standby, repairs…). Sensible defaults exist; add your program's own.
  • Consumables — bits, rods, mud, additives — with costs if you want burn tracked in dollars as well as units.

You'll find all of it under the drilling pages and the drilling group in project settings.

The daily rhythm: shift reports

Each shift files one daily shift report (DSR): date, drill, hole, start and end depths, hours by activity, consumables used. Three ways they arrive:

  • Typed at the rig or the office — the DSR form takes a minute.
  • From the field app — contractors file from the rig on a phone, offline-safe, synced when there's signal.
  • From a photo of the paper form — many contractors still hand over carbon-copy shift dockets. Snap a photo, hand it to Petra, and she reads it into a draft report with the activity rows filled in — you review and save. A draft never becomes the record without your eyes on it.

Asking for the story: summaries and reports

With DSRs flowing, the program's story is a question away. Ask Petra things like "meters by rig this week", "what did shift standby cost us in March", or "summarise drilling progress for the monthly report" — she reads the shift reports and answers with the numbers, and can compose a period summary — meters by rig and day, activity breakdown, consumable burn — into a progress report document you can keep or share. The drilling pages remain the manual surface: every report and rig list is there to browse whenever you'd rather look than ask.

One honest boundary: shift reports are created rig-side, by people or from their paperwork. There's no shortcut that turns a drilling contract into shift reports — a contract sets up the contractor and rigs; the shifts still have to happen.