Operations
The pad does not stop so someone can stand beside a pumper with a hose.
This is the operating method these automated fuelers were built for. Integral did not redesign it. We run it, staff it, and report it under our name.
Sequence
01
Spot outside the exclusion zone
The trailer is self-contained and self-powered. It does not need a house generator or a rebuild of the iron. Crews treat it as a plug-in to the spread that already exists.
02
One line per pumper
Each pumper gets its own fuel line. There is no daisy chain to break when a unit is swapped. Published disconnect time on this platform is about one minute, against 15–20 minutes for a conventional hose setup.
03
Fuel on the fly, depressurized
Delivery is continuous and not run as a pressurized spray into a hot tank. That is the point of the design: fuel still arrives while the spread is pumping, without putting atmospheric fuel into the hot zone.
04
Watch the unit, not the hose
Valve and pump control is handled from inside the trailer. Modes are manual or automated. Hydrostatic sensors and control logic look for underfill, overfill, and faults. Tank level is polled every five seconds.
05
Meter what the stage actually burned
Turbine flow metering and the customer portal give per-pumper and per-stage consumption. Completions can reconcile fuel against a well. Procurement can see whether a fuel vendor is still parking a standby truck the pad no longer needs.
06
Schedule fuel, do not babysit it
With inventory visible and lines already live, fuel drops can be larger and timed. The original platform was sold in part because fuel vendors could stop tying up standby assets on every location.
State of the art system
Never out of fuel.
Hydrostatic sensors and electronic valves hold every connected tank at its target level. The sensor reads pressure from the bottom of the tank, so measurement does not depend on a float or a sight glass, and the control logic acts on it in real time rather than waiting for an operator to notice.
Fuel at optimal levels
Tanks are held in range so a unit never runs dry, and never sits over-fueled or under-fueled through a stage.
Rate-of-change monitoring
The system watches how fast a level moves. An abnormal rate trips an automatic shutdown before it becomes a spill or a dry pump.
Automated re-fueling
Electronic valves open and close against the level target on their own. Operators supervise the system instead of chasing tanks by hand.
Metered and reported
The same monitoring feeds per-pumper and per-stage consumption into the customer portal, alongside live tank levels on a five-second poll.
What stays the same on your iron
No pumper retrofit. No new tank geometry.
The published design point of this fleet is that it adapts to the spread you already have. We do not ask the pressure pumper to cut tanks, add manifolds, or change fill necks as a condition of automated fueling.
If a pumper comes off, the line comes off with it. The rest of the spread keeps taking fuel. That is the operational difference versus a daisy chain, and it is why the one-minute disconnect number shows up in every serious write-up of this equipment.
Remote monitoring is part of the package: tank levels, pump and valve state, and consumption by unit. Use it from the command trailer or from town. We walk your completions engineer through the portal on the first job, not in a marketing webinar.
safety controls and the commercial brief sit on separate pages because those readers do not want the same paragraph.