Bakken · North Dakota & Montana
Bakken oilfield security for remote pads and long winter nights.
HoundLight goes on a pole at the lease road, pad entrance or tank battery. It spots people and vehicles after hours, lights them up, plays a voice warning and sends the clip to your field team. No power or Wi-Fi needed.
What goes missing here
What theft looks like on Bakken leases.
Crude goes missing in transport as well as from tanks. In 2022, four men in McKenzie County were charged with skimming about 34,000 barrels, worth more than $2.4 million, from deliveries to a midstream facility.
WDBO / Cox Media, July 2022Remote sites also lose tools, copper and equipment. Near Williston, explosives used in well completions were stolen from locked storage magazines.
Upstream, August 2016Leases are spread across McKenzie, Williams, Mountrail and Dunn counties, often miles from the nearest deputy.
Where HoundLight goes
Solar 4G units for the sites power lines don't reach.
Pad entrances and lease roads
Watch the way trucks and pickups actually come in, and catch the ones that shouldn't.
Tank batteries and load-outs
Fence-line coverage around tanks and load lines, outside the classified area.
Saltwater disposal sites
Monitor unattended disposal wells that sit far off the main road.
Pipe, equipment and laydown yards
Keep eyes on stacked pipe, tools and materials across large open yards.
Storage magazines and tool containers
Cover locked storage that thieves target between shifts.
Water transfer and frac water sites
Monitor water lines and impoundments that run miles from anywhere.
Built for local conditions
Winter nights are long and days are short, so we size the solar panel and battery for your location and season before install. Every unit reports its battery level in Scopis AI, so you see a problem before it becomes one. We also check 4G coverage at each pad before it goes up.
Every truck at the gate, on record
Haulers come and go all day. SmartReg logs every plate at the pad entrance with a photo and the time, so a short delivery can be matched to a truck. See SmartReg
How it works
From a shape in the dark to a record your insurer can read.
Detect
A person or vehicle shows up after hours.
Deter
Lights, siren and a voice warning — in English or Spanish.
Alert
The clip goes to everyone who needs it at once, from the pumper to the superintendent, by app, text or WhatsApp. Nobody has to pass it on. Anyone who gets the alert can cancel it or escalate it from the Scopis AI app, so a false alarm is closed in seconds and a real one gets help fast.
Record
Every event is logged in Scopis AI for your insurer or the sheriff.
Alerts go to your field team by app, text or WhatsApp. Human-verified monitoring is available in Texas today; for North Dakota and Montana, ask us.
HoundLight is not rated for classified hazardous locations. We mount it outside classified zones: gates, fence lines, yards and lease roads.
Try it on your lease: 30-day pilot
We set up HoundLight at one or two of your gates or tank batteries, wherever you operate, for 30 days. You see every alert in the Scopis AI app as it happens. At the end you get a report of every person and vehicle detected after hours, so you can decide on real evidence.
Live in minutes, no power or Wi-Fi needed
English and Spanish voice warnings
Moves to your next lease when you are done
Bakken questions
Yes. Each alert goes to several people at once by app, text or WhatsApp, and you can set a schedule: night crew at night, day crew by day, or different people for each lease. Anyone who receives it can cancel or escalate it in the Scopis AI app.
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Tell us how many gates and pads you need covered — we'll price the whole play.
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