Shell enlists Avitas technology, a Baker Hughes company, to expand a drone-based program to enhance existing methane leak detection and repair programs in a very productive Permian Basin, a U.S. shale basin. This decision follows a successful two-year pilot program, since 2018 in which the international oil and gas company, Shell, plans to test drone […]
According to research carried out by scientists at the University of Aberdeen, the use of aerial drones monitoring oil and gas pipelines can bring significant benefits to operators. Traditionally, inspecting and monitoring are carried out on foot or by helicopter, so it is clear to scientists that using drones makes total sense. Because pipeline networks […]
Utility Industry: Few, if any other industry, have benefited more from drone technology than utilities, and one of the most important reasons is that, because so much of its work is hazardous, drones have minimized much of that danger. Another important reason why public utilities have gained significantly by adopting drones is the sheer amount […]
The advent of technology and the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with drone development, thermal imaging, methane gas detection, has been the major factor that convinced the oil and natural gas industries to adopt drones. With the addition of specific electromagnetic sensors, drones are being used to gather geological information to help geophysicists identify, and […]