Industries · Mining, oil & gas

Location intelligence for mining, oil and gas operations

Watch remote sites from space, keep convoys and crews safe, and build local supply.

25ready-made templates
6kinds of use case
0one-minute stories
29blocks used
145hours a month saved by them all (an estimate)

Why mining, oil & gas teams use xMap Flows

Remote operations depend on roads, weather and local suppliers. xMap Flows watches pits, pipelines and sites from satellite, warns convoys about closures and haul roads about rain, plans for heat at sites, finds local suppliers, housing and workforce, and tracks ore and fuel ships near the port.

Remote sites far from view

Satellite pictures of pits, pipelines and plots.

Convoys and haul roads

Closures and rain along routes, before trucks leave.

Heat at site

Heat alerts for crews and equipment.

Local content

Local suppliers, housing and workforce near each site.

Mining companies, oil and gas operators and their suppliers keeping remote sites safe, supplied and on good terms with their neighbours.

How a flow works for mining, oil & gas

Every flow reads left to right: something starts it (a schedule, a message, an app event or new rows), it looks at an area, gathers data, lets xMap AI make sense of it, applies your rules, and sends the result where your team works. These are the blocks mining, oil & gas templates use most.

  1. 1

    Where

    Choose the area: countries, cities, a radius around your own sites, or shapes you draw.

    Area of interest

  2. 2

    Data

    Bring in what is there and what is changing.

    Nearby places · Weather forecast · Demographics · Traffic incidents · Satellite images

  3. 3

    AI and your rules

    Score, rank, keep only what is new or fits, and match with your own data.

    xMap LLM · Jev decision · Place classifier · AI agent · Sort and limit

  4. 4

    Where results go

    Send each result where your team works.

    Email · Show on a map · Reply · Google Sheets · HubSpot

Use cases and templates for mining, oil & gas

Each template is a real flow on live data. Open it, change the city and the kind of place, test it and deploy it. Grouped by what the team wants to do.

Find customers and leads 5 templates

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Mines and quarries graded as equipment buyers, with procurement.

Every quarter: mining companies and quarries in your region, graded by Jev as buyers of heavy equipment and spares, the good ones with the procurement manager from Apollo, into HubSpot. Equipment sales in mining are big and slow. Knowing the biggest buyers and their procurement lead is the start.

Good for
A heavy equipment dealer · A wear parts supplier · A mining software company
Each run gives
New leads in HubSpot
Time saved
About 6 hours a month (an estimate)

Quarries and concrete plants scored as equipment customers.

Every quarter: quarries and concrete factories in your region, the new ones only, scored by xMap AI as customers for crushing equipment and wear parts, into HubSpot. Quarries wear out crushers and parts constantly. New ones are open to new suppliers.

Good for
A crusher manufacturer · A wear parts supplier · A conveyor company
Each run gives
New leads in HubSpot
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Surveyors near new concessions, approved for quotes.

Every quarter: land surveyors and engineering consultants within 100 km of your new concessions, with the owner from Apollo, approved by the land team, into HubSpot. New concessions need surveys fast. An approved shortlist of local surveyors gets it started.

Good for
A mining company’s land team · A renewable energy developer · A pipeline builder
Each run gives
New leads in HubSpot
Time saved
About 3 hours a month (an estimate)

Gas companies scored as distribution partners, with the commercial manager.

Every quarter: gas companies and industrial gas suppliers in your country, scored by xMap AI as distribution partners, with the commercial manager from Apollo, into HubSpot. Industrial gas reaches customers through local distributors. The best partners cover the most ground.

Good for
An industrial gas producer · A gas equipment maker · A welding supplies distributor
Each run gives
New leads in HubSpot
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Tyre and truck shops graded as off-the-road tyre dealers.

Every quarter: tyre shops and truck repair shops in the towns near mines, graded by Jev as dealers for off-the-road tyres, sent to the tyre company’s reps on WhatsApp. Off-the-road tyres are sold through a few strong local dealers. Reps visit the best candidates first.

Good for
A tyre manufacturer · A tyre distributor · A retreading company
Each run gives
A WhatsApp message
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Competitor watch 1 template

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New exploration companies in the region, with their country manager.

Every quarter: mining and oil and gas exploration companies that set up in your region in the last year, with the country manager from Apollo, written up by xMap AI as a competitive note. A new explorer in your region may target your ground or your people. Knowing early helps you respond.

Good for
A mining company’s strategy team · An exploration services firm · A mining investor
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)

Hiring signals and recruiting 1 template

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Who is hiring mining engineers, as a talent note.

Every month: mining and oil and gas engineering job postings in your region, grouped by company by xMap AI, as a note on the competition for talent for the HR director. Mining engineers are scarce. Knowing who competes for them guides hiring and pay.

Good for
A mining company’s HR director · A mining recruiter · A university mining school
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Operations and alerts 10 templates

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Tomorrow’s heat at each remote site, with a work-rest cycle.

Every afternoon: tomorrow’s temperature and UV at each remote site in your table, the hottest first, with a work-rest cycle by xMap AI for supervisors, sent on WhatsApp. Heat illness is a top risk at remote sites. Supervisors plan cycles and water the day before.

Good for
A mining company’s safety team · An oil and gas contractor · A solar farm builder
Each run gives
A WhatsApp message
Time saved
About 10 hours a month (an estimate)

Rain ahead at each mine, with a haul road and pit safety plan.

Every morning: the rain forecast at each mine in your table for the next three days, the wettest first, with a haul road and pit safety plan by xMap AI, emailed to the mine managers. Wet haul roads and flooded benches cause accidents. Mine managers prepare before the rain.

Good for
A mine operations team · A quarry operator · A mining contractor
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 10 hours a month (an estimate)

Each open pit from space every month, with what changed.

Every month: the latest clear satellite picture of each open pit in your table, with a note by xMap AI on how the pit, waste dumps and roads changed, for the mine planning team. Pictures from above show how pits, dumps and roads grow, for planning and reporting.

Good for
A mine planning team · A mining investor · A mining regulator
Each run gives
An email with the pictures
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Truck stops, fuel and tyres along the haul corridor.

Every quarter: truck stops, gas stations and tyre shops along the corridor between the mine and the port, the best-rated first, in a sheet for the logistics team. Long haul corridors need planned stops. A current list keeps drivers safe and trucks moving.

Good for
A mining logistics team · A trucking contractor · A corridor development agency
Each run gives
A Google Sheet · A map
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Closures on the convoy route each morning, with a hold, go or reroute notice.

Every morning at 5:00: road closures and incidents along the towns of your convoy route, with a convoy notice by xMap AI (hold, go or reroute), sent to the convoy leaders on WhatsApp. Convoys stuck on a closed road are a safety and security risk. Leaders decide before leaving.

Good for
A mining convoy team · An oil and gas logistics company · A security escort firm
Each run gives
A WhatsApp message
Time saved
About 10 hours a month (an estimate)

Places to stay near each remote site, for shutdown contractors.

Before each shutdown: hotels and campgrounds within 50 km of each site in your table, the best-rated first, in a sheet for the contractor housing team. Shutdowns bring hundreds of contractors at once. Housing is booked fast from a ready list.

Good for
A mine shutdown planner · An oil and gas contractor · A workforce accommodation company
Each run gives
A Google Sheet
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

The nearest hospitals and airports to each site, for the emergency plan.

Every year: the hospitals and airports nearest to each site in your table, with distances, summed up by xMap AI for the emergency response plan. In an emergency, every minute counts. The plan names the nearest care and the medevac route for each site.

Good for
A mine safety team · An oil and gas operator · A remote construction project
Each run gives
A document in Google Drive
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)

Bulk carriers at the ore port every six hours, for the stockpile team.

Every six hours: cargo ships at your ore export port (live AIS), with which are loading or waiting, summed up by xMap AI for the shipping and stockpile team. Ships waiting at the port tell the stockpile team what to load next. They see it four times a day.

Good for
A mining company’s shipping team · A port stockpile operator · A commodity trader
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 30 hours a month (an estimate)

Road incidents near pipeline stations every six hours.

Every six hours: road incidents and closures within 2 km of each pipeline valve station or crossing in your table, with a note by xMap AI for the pipeline integrity team. Incidents near a pipeline can damage it. The integrity team decides whether to send a patrol.

Good for
A pipeline operator · An oil and gas security team · A gas utility
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 30 hours a month (an estimate)

Weather, convoy roads and new suppliers in one weekly brief.

Every Monday: the weather at your sites this week, closures on the convoy route and new suppliers near the mine towns, joined by xMap AI into a one-page brief for the operations director. Field operations need one page each Monday. Three signals joined make it.

Good for
An operations director · A site manager · A mining contractor
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 3 hours a month (an estimate)

Market data and research 7 templates

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Equipment, tyre, diesel and gas suppliers near each mine town.

Every quarter: mining equipment suppliers, tyre shops, diesel engine repair and industrial gas suppliers within 50 km of each mine town in your table, the best-rated first, in a sheet for procurement. A breakdown at a remote mine costs a fortune. A current list of nearby suppliers shortens every repair.

Good for
A mine procurement team · A mining contractor · An equipment rental company
Each run gives
A Google Sheet
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Working-age people near each site, for the local content report.

Every year: the working-age people living within 8 km of each site in your table, summed up by xMap AI as the local hiring section of the local content report. Governments ask how many local people a mine can hire. The numbers around each site answer it.

Good for
A mining company’s HR team · A local content officer · An oil and gas operator
Each run gives
A report in Google Drive
Time saved
About 3 hours a month (an estimate)

Schools, clinics and people around each mine, as a community investment plan.

Every year: schools, clinics and community centres within 10 km of each mine, with the people living around, written up by xMap AI as the community investment plan. Good community investment starts with knowing what is there. The plan shows where support matters most.

Good for
A community relations team · A mining foundation · An NGO partner
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 3 hours a month (an estimate)

Laboratories near your projects, approved for assays.

Every year: laboratories within 100 km of your exploration projects, the best-rated first, each with what they likely test by xMap AI, approved by the geology team. Fast, reliable assays keep exploration moving. An approved list of labs nearby saves weeks.

Good for
An exploration company · A mining consultant · An environmental monitoring team
Each run gives
A Google Sheet
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Local businesses graded as suppliers for the supplier development programme.

Every year: independent hardware stores, transport companies, caterers and workshops in the towns near your mines, graded by Jev as local suppliers, for the local procurement programme. Buying locally builds goodwill and meets local content rules. The programme starts with the readiest businesses.

Good for
A local procurement team · A mining foundation · A chamber of commerce
Each run gives
A Google Sheet
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)

People, services and land around each site, as an ESG section.

Every year: the people living within 5 km of each site, the schools and clinics nearby and the latest satellite picture, summed up by xMap AI as the social and environmental section of the ESG report. ESG reports need facts about communities and land. The section is drafted from the map and pictures from above.

Good for
A mining company’s sustainability team · An oil and gas operator · An ESG consultant
Each run gives
A report in Google Drive
Time saved
About 4 hours a month (an estimate)

Equipment suppliers near each project, approved for rentals.

Every quarter: construction equipment suppliers within 50 km of your active projects (your table), the best-rated first, approved by the projects team, in a rentals sheet. Projects rent equipment at short notice. Approved suppliers nearby make it quick.

Good for
A project team · A mining contractor · A construction company
Each run gives
A Google Sheet
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Chat assistants and APIs 1 template

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A chat that tells contractors the nearest hospital, police and fuel to a site, and the weather.

A chat for contractors travelling to your sites: an AI agent finds the nearest hospital, police station and fuel station to any site or town, with distance and phone, and the weather there this week. Contractors arrive at remote sites not knowing where help is. The chat answers in seconds, before they set off and on the road.

Good for
A mining company’s contractor portal · A remote site services firm · An exploration camp operator
Each run gives
A chat page
Time saved
About 17 hours a month (an estimate)

The blocks behind it

Blocks are the building pieces of every flow. These are the ones mining, oil & gas templates and stories use, most used first. Each has its own page with its settings, examples and a short film.

ScheduleTriggerStarts the flow on a timetable.EmailActionSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.Nearby placesxMap dataPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or axMap LLMxMap AITell the AI what to do in plain words.My dataYour dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.Area of interestWhereSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.Google SheetsAppCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets onlineWeather forecastxMap dataThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.Sort and limitLogicPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.Remove duplicatesLogicKeeps one of each item when the same one arrives more than once, for example from two searches that overlap.ApolloYour dataThe people to talk to at each company, and the company’s details, from your own Apollo account (apollo.io): decision makers by job title with their LinkedIn and work email; or the company’s size, induHubSpotAppPowerful CRM that offers tools for sales, customer service, and marketing automation.WhatsApp BusinessAppSend text, media and template messages from your WhatsApp Business number.DemographicsxMap dataWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).Google DriveAppCloud storage and file backupTraffic incidentsxMap dataRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.Jev decisionxMap AIAsks TypeSafe’s Jev model one typed question about each place: yes or no, pick one of your options, or a score on your levels.FilterLogicKeeps only the items that match a rule.ApprovalLogicStops the run until someone says yes.Place classifierxMap AIAssigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.Satellite imagesxMap dataRecent satellite pictures (Sentinel-2, about 10 m per pixel, a new pass every few days) of each incoming place, a point or the Area of interest: when it was taken, how cloudy, and the picture itself.Only newLogicLets through only the items this flow has not found before, so a daily flow sends only what is new.Calculated fieldLogicAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.Show on a mapActionShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.Job postingsxMap dataLive job postings: who is hiring, for what, and where.Ships (AIS)xMap dataShips at sea or in port right now, from AIS (the signal ships send with their position, speed and heading; live from AISStream): every vessel heard in the Area of interest before this block, or around a point.ChatTriggerStarts the flow when someone writes in its chat: the chat window in the editor, or a chat page you can share or put on your website.AI agentxMap AIAn AI agent: for each incoming message it thinks, uses the blocks you link to its Tools port (data, xMap AI, lookups, your tables, other flows, apps), remembers the conversation and writes an answer in {{reply}}.ReplyActionAnswers whoever started the flow, on the same channel: the app or system that called its Webhook / API gets the answer back, and a message from Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, Teams, SMS, Outlook or Discor

Every block →

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The ideas behind these flows, step-by-step guides and help articles for the blocks this industry uses most. More in Resources, or see how xMap Flows compares with other tools.

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Questions

Can xMap Flows monitor remote sites?

Yes. Satellite images give the latest clear picture of each site every few weeks.

Can it keep convoys safe?

Yes. Traffic incidents and the weather along routes, with alerts to drivers and dispatch.

Does it help local procurement?

Yes. Local suppliers, contractors and housing near each site, scored.

Which data is live?

Live: xMap's places database (300M+ places of more than 5,000 kinds), live business listings from online maps, job postings, road incidents, ships (AIS), satellite pictures, weather forecasts, news from the feeds and pages you choose, travel-time areas and routes on the road network, and residents by age (Demographics, in about 100 countries), live road speeds and congestion (Traffic Flow; it does not count cars), footfall around each place (Mobility Footfall, in most of the world, about 10 days behind), plus regional datasets where xMap offers them, such as cars counted on the roads of the United Arab Emirates (Road traffic history). Catchment returns sample figures for now, and every result made from it says so.

Do I need to write code?

No. A flow is built from blocks on a canvas, from a ready-made template, or by describing it to Ask xMap in a sentence; Ask xMap builds it, tests it and fixes what fails. Developers can also use the API and the MCP server.

How fast can a mining, oil & gas team start?

Hire one of the AI employees above: answer two questions (the city and the kind of place), or write one sentence to make it yours ("for dental clinics in Lyon, to WhatsApp every Monday"), and it runs in your own account with results you can see. A new account can also type its website and meet three AI employees already tried in its city. Or try the home page first: no account needed.

Can an agency or consultancy offer this to its clients?

Yes. Your logo and colour on the app, emails and reports, emails from your own domain, the app on your own address, and a read-only page for each client with its results, map and weekly report. See the Partners page.

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