Industry Experts Speak – What Will It Take to Make BVLOS A Reality, Enabling Drones in the Oil and Gas Industry and Beyond? By: Dawn Zoldi Continue reading below, or listen: More than six years ago when Jon Damush, the current CEO of Iris Automation, was the Chief Growth Officer …
Read More »Pipeline Inspection with Drones Virginia Natural Gas
Virginia Natural Gas First in State to Deploy Pipeline Inspection With Drones by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Virginia Natural Gas (VNG) is set to become the first natural gas utility in the state to deploy Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for the inspection of gas pipelines. Self-dispatched Mavic 2 …
Read More »Shell Expands Drone-Based Methane Detection Program
Photo courtesy of Baker Hughes By DRONELIFE staff writer Jim Magill Following a successful two-year pilot program, international oil and gas company Shell will employ a small fleet of drones to fly over more than 500 oil and gas sites in the Permian Basin of West Texas and southeastern New …
Read More »The Right Tools for Oil and Gas Exploration: SimActive and D…
Canada’s SimActive and Dawson Geophysical demonstrate the use of drones with mapping and modeling software for oil and gas seismic exploration. Knowing where to drill is a million dollar question for the oil and gas industry. Seismic exploration is one way that the energy industry can determine where commercially viable …
Read More »Indonesian Inspection Contract Fuels Terra Drone’s Asian Asc…
Source: Terra Drone Japanese drone provider Terra Drone is expanding its Asian footprint after conducting UAV inspections for energy giant Chevron. Terra Drone’s Indonesian subsidiary deployed a multirotor drone equipped with high-resolution RGB and thermal cameras to inspect onshore flare stacks at one of the nation’s largest oil fields in Rokan, …
Read More »Terra Drone Continues Expansion in Angola – Responds to High…
The following is a Terra Drone press release. Terra Drone Angola has already won contracts to provide high-quality drone inspection services to major oil and gas companies in Africa Tokyo, Japan – May 10, 2019 – Japan-based Terra Drone Corporation (CEO: Toru Tokushige), one of the world’s largest providers of …
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