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From inspecting operational infrastructure to collecting valuable insights from the plants, drone technology promises to improve the efficiency of oil and gas companies.
FREMONT, CA: The oil and gas industry is rapidly taking advantage of drone technology for a wide variety of applications. Drone technology provides crew-less vehicles that save a considerable amount of costs and time for improving efficiency and safety across the plants. From the past few years, this brilliant technology continuously enhances the abilities to perform a wide range of operations.
Drone technology proves to be a cost-effective and safe solution for existing and new onshore and offshore sites. Drones help oil and gas companies in aerial, underground, and undersea explorations. The advanced visual solutions can help in sampling and creating 3D maps of prospective sites and surroundings. The data captured by drones prove to be valuable information for the companies while enabling them to improve their existing operations, production, and efficiency and forecasting breakdowns.
Drones help in streamlining the purification and manufacturing processes by assisting the means of analysis, product segregation, and logistics. Drones also carry samples while inspecting the methods and products as they pass through different stages within the plant. From the enhancement of monitoring processes to the inspection of the infrastructure, drones deliver the complete package for improving operations and productivity of oil and gas plants. UAVs help in integrating other technologies, like teleconferencing, to manage field workers in remote locations.
Today drone technology continuously enhances the monitoring of pipelines and other infrastructure. Most of the drones that are available in the market are capable of performing complex inspection and helping in processing valuable data. By using advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, wireless networks, analytics, robotics, IoT, cloud systems, and more, the oil and gas companies can use the collected data for making better data-driven decisions. The significant benefits of using drone technology are improvement in safety, reduction in operational cost, and gathering and providing detailed visual and other inspection data from critical assets.
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