Project Signals is a daily-refreshed feed inside your CrewFinder workspace that shows you work coming to your area before it shows up on your phone. Tenders posted by operators and procurement boards, permits filed with regulators, capex announcements, scheduled turnarounds, mobilizations, rig releases, layoffs, M&A — anything an operator is doing that a subcontractor could act on.
You'll find it in the top nav of your workspace as 📡 Signals, sitting next to Listing, Sales Hub, and Settings. It's free for every claimed listing — no trial timer, no upgrade prompt, no card on file.
What kinds of signals show up
Ten kinds of events — the ones a field-services company can actually do something about:
- Tenders & RFPs — every US federal opportunity on SAM.gov and every Canadian federal opportunity on CanadaBuys, refreshed daily with closing dates and disclosed dollar values, plus RFP / RFQ / ITB postings from operators, municipalities, and provincial / state procurement boards. The Tenders tab also gives you an All tenders view that lists every open federal tender in your country — see The Tenders tab.
- Permits — project applications, facility permits, right-of-way filings to a regulator.
- Well licences — regulator grants a well licence. Drilling-imminent.
- Capex announcements — operators raise, cut, or restate their capital spending plans. Cuts count too.
- Turnarounds & shutdowns — scheduled refinery, upgrader, or plant turnarounds. The biggest sub-spend windows in the calendar.
- Mobilizations — crews, rigs, and service spreads moving to a site for a near-term job.
- Rig releases — rigs released, suspended, or returned. Tells you which programmes are winding down.
- Layoffs — operator headcount cuts. Procurement behaviour shifts.
- Acquisitions — M&A involving operators or major subs. Procurement re-routes after a close.
- Procurement contact changes — named supply-chain or procurement leads joining, leaving, or moving at an operator.
What you won't see
General industry news, oil-price chatter, OPEC speculation, accident reports — anything that isn't a concrete event you could do something about. We're strict on purpose: a feed full of noise is worse than no feed at all.
Where the signals come from
Roughly 100 sources across six categories:
- Regulators — energy regulators across Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan, the federal commission, the Texas Railroad Commission, FERC, EIA, and similar.
- Operator announcements — major producers, pipeline and midstream operators, and utilities. The first place capex changes and big project go-aheads show up.
- Public procurement boards — SAM.gov (US federal) and CanadaBuys (Canadian federal), both refreshed daily with dollar values and closing dates, plus provincial bid boards, municipal RFP feeds, and regional construction tender boards.
- Basin and regional trade press — Permian, Bakken, Eagle Ford, Montney, Duvernay, and similar regional outlets.
- Industrial trade press — pipeline, drilling, inspection, midstream, refining, power, and construction trade journals.
- Utility and power — large utilities, TVA, regional grid operators. Where the next wave of construction spending shows up first.
Everything we read is publicly available. We don't scrape paywalls, we don't buy contact lists, and we don't resell what we collect.
How often it refreshes
News-shaped sources (operator press releases, regulator news, trade press) refresh every six hours. Structured-data feeds — SAM.gov federal tenders, CanadaBuys federal tenders, and the Alberta Energy Regulator's well-licence CSV — refresh daily because their upstream sources only update once a day. The page shows a green pill in the top right — Last activity X hours ago — so you can see at a glance how fresh the feed is. The Tenders tab carries its own live indicator scoped to the federal procurement source for your country (SAM.gov, CanadaBuys, or both for cross-border ops). If a feed looks stale, tell us at support@crewfinder.info.
Who it's for
Project Signals is built for subcontractors and field-services companies — the ones who actually run the iron, weld the line, haul the equipment, and swing the hammer. If you're chasing work from operators and general contractors, this is for you.
Sectors well-covered today: oilfield services, pipeline & midstream, industrial construction, power & utilities, mining & minerals, forestry & agriculture, hauling & equipment, environmental & remediation. If your sector isn't pulling much, that probably means we need to add sources — email hello@crewfinder.info and we'll fix it.
Free, no upsell
Project Signals is free for every claimed CrewFinder listing. There is no Project Signals tier, no per-signal charge, and no trial timer. If you have a profile, you have the feed.
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