Alpecca · for drilling contractors
Your crews fill in paper every shift. The supervisor WhatsApps a photo of each one. By 7 the next morning your office has one Excel sheet with every metre, every bit and every safety check in it, in full. Anything a person should look at is marked red, with the reason beside it.
Why it matters
Progress reports, toolbox talks, risk assessments, PPE checks, rig checks. Often the office only has time to type the basics. Then the standby hours never reach the invoice, a missing signature turns up at the mine's audit, and nobody can say which rig drills the most metres for the money.
How it works
At the end of the shift, one photo of each paper on WhatsApp, from site.
Depths, metres, hours, bits, names and signatures, checked against each other. A person checks every red row.
In Excel, in your own layout: metres drilled, materials, safety meetings and safety checks, each on its own tab.
What it looks like
| Paper | Tab | Check |
|---|---|---|
| Progress report 1041, rig RC-1 | Metres drilled | ok |
| Progress report 1042, rig RC-2 | Metres drilled | Written 43 m, but 88.00 to 131.35 is 43.35 m. Geologist has not signed |
| Progress report 1043, rig RC-3 | Metres drilled | 2.5 hours standby waiting on water: bill or not? |
| Consumables, 28 Oct | Materials | ok |
| Toolbox talk, 28 Oct | Safety meetings | Moses and Elias did not sign |
| Task risk assessment, 28 Oct | Safety meetings | ok |
| Safety equipment check, 28 Oct | Safety checks | Moses has no safety glasses |
| Rig inspection 2210, RC-2 | Safety checks | Oil leak, hydraulic hose leaking |
Rows from made-up papers. Your sheet also carries every depth, hole, bit serial, name and the photo each row came from.
For the owner
See which rig and crew drill the most, from the reports you already fill in.
A hole that used three times the water of the others stands out the next day.
Every bit serial is tracked from the day it goes on to the day it comes off.
Every toolbox talk, risk assessment and PPE check in one place when the mine asks.
Questions
The supervisor sends one photo of each paper on WhatsApp at the end of the shift. No app, no login, nothing to install.
Daily drilling reports (progress and shift reports), consumables and bit sheets, toolbox talks, task risk assessments, PPE checks and rig inspections. Printed or handwritten. We set it up on a few of your own old papers first.
Yes. Tell us the columns and tabs you want, or send the sheet you use today, and the rows land in that layout.
Metres that don't match the from and to depths, a missing geologist or supervisor signature, standby hours, a bit serial that can't be read, crew who did not sign the toolbox talk, missing safety gear and faults on the rig check. A person at Voypelo checks every red row.
No. It takes the typing off the person in your office, so they spend the time on the red rows and the invoices.
You stay the responsible party under POPIA. Before your first month we sign a one-page data agreement, and if you stop, we delete our copies within 30 days.
One monthly fee for the whole operation, all rigs included. You hear it on the first call. No set-up fee, month to month.
South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, anywhere your supervisors have WhatsApp. We are based in Greenstone Hill, Johannesburg.
Start
WhatsApp us a few old reports, names covered, and see them come back as your morning sheet. If your crews work only in your own yard, this is not for you. Typing them yourself for now? Try the free daily drilling report template.
