Oil and Gas
Empowering Gas & Oil Inspection with latest Drone Technology
Embodying integrity, the oil and gas industry is a sector that actively involves the extraction of oil from mines and wells, both on land and offshore, utilizing natural resources to their fullest potential. The culture within the oil and gas industry revolves around extensive inspection, thorough investigation, and in-depth research, underscoring the importance of focused surveys, inquiries, and exploration. The onset and introduction of several modern and contemporary techniques have contributed to the industry’s advancement as a whole. Among various innovations, the incorporation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and drones has propelled the oil and gas industry to new heights. Fundamentally rooted in aerial photography and thermography, drones pave the way for improved image quality, reduced downtime, precise measurements, and angled shots, among other advantages.
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With our skillful drone pilots, we obtain aerial data 10x quicker than other industry competitors.
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Team
Our team consists of highly qualified GIS Engineers, Drone Pilots, and Software Engineers who present their invaluable services to our clients.
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Faster Data Acquisition
With our skillful drone pilots, we obtain aerial data 10x quicker than other industry competitors.
Application of Drones in Oil and Gas Industry
Redefining the widespread applications of imminent technology, especially concentrated on oil and gas monitoring, brings about the extensive recognition and acknowledgement that drone technology has earned. Significantly, the integration of unmanned drones greatly enhances the capabilities for monitoring, inspecting, and assessing the conditions within the oil and gas industry. Consequently, they represent a versatile and indispensable tool across all facets of the oil and gas sector.
- Higher-resolution visual inspections with drones compared to ground-based inspections
- Utilizing Drone Inspection will typically reduce cost of inspections by approximately 30-50%
- Avoid Costly Mistake - Drone thermal Inspection can easily find a tiny dead cell that can compromise the entire system causing economic damage.
- Keep the solar farm running at peak efficiency with help of Aerial Thermal Imaging
- Speed of inspection time is greatly improved as Drons can scan large areas with short time frame
- Geo Tagged image data - Localize faulty panels and failed solar cells easily in large solar farms.
Chimney/ Smoke Stack
As a means of convenient application of resources, drones in the spheres of chimney and smoke stacks, vitally reduces human risks. More so, features of good lighting, thermal cameras and sensors, data review services, accurate measurements testify drones to be a valuable inspection tool. Ease of access to inaccessible areas of survey and decremental costs for inspection also justify the same.
Storage Tanks
Internal inspection of storage tanks may be improvised with the help of drones that bear qualities of detailed and automatic image recognition, appropriate data for analysis and review and more. Effectively, reduced human risks at the hand of drones have saved huge amounts of money, all the while expressing efficient performance with decreased downtime.
Offshore Rigs
Oil rigs and mines located offshore may attest to be a tedious and visibly hazardous operation as a consequence of the high risks and dangers of oil tanks and infrastructure. Besides, oil leaks, operational delays, equipment damage are few of various factors that go on to show the complications associated with offshore oil rig inspections. Profound and exhaustive yet detailed surveillance and analysis of offshore oil platforms, oil leakage, gas emission monitoring and most essentially security are the vital and advantageous services that are entailed by the utilisation of drone technology.
Refinery
Being a prominent aspect of the oil and gas companies and the said industry, oil refineries have to be under continual and constant monitoring. Inspection of oil refineries require the use of highly thermo- sensitive devices that can freely navigate without many limitations. This, quintessentially, gives way to the use of drones by the virtue of their thermo -sensors and aerial flight capabilities. Reduced risks, reduced costs and heightened efficiency prove to be favourable to the oil and gas industry, as a whole.
Benefits of Drones in Oil & Gas Sector with Equinox's Drones
Quick Evaluations
Oil and gas inspections with drones are quick, even in areas difficult to reach by traditional methods.
Frequent Evaluations
With oil and gas drones, inspections can be done more frequently and extensively, enhancing the assets' longevity.
High Resolution Data
The more detailed and accurate data delivered by a drone inspection can enable companies to proactively identify more defects, which could lead to fewer power outages and reduced repair costs.
Cost-efficiency
UAV inspections allow oil and gas companies to diminish their inspection costs drastically since they eliminate the requirement of expensive scaffolding/staging for workers. With Drones, they even reduce turnaround times, sometimes even by several days..
Increased accuracy
Oil and gas drones decrease the chances of mistakes, exclusions, and the time taken to obtain data during inspections. Data in the form of images and videos are of high-resolution.
Harm Reduction
Oil and gas companies can employ UAVs in areas considered a health and safety concern for workers rather than assigning them into potentially dangerous circumstances.