drones
Drones have become an integral part of the oil, gas, power, chemicals and bulk industres due to their ability to improve safety, reduce costs, enhance data quality, and contribute to environmental sustainability. Wondering how to leverage drones in your business? Partner with Fox & Waterman.
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1. Inspection and Monitoring: Drones enable employees to conduct inspection and monitoring tasks without exposing themselves to the typical dangers of these operations. They can inspect and travel around infrastructures, such as refineries and oil rigs, from a safe distance.
2. Real-Time Insights: Companies like BP, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell are employing drones to obtain real-time insights to enhance their productivity.
3. Safety: Drones provide an essential bird’s-eye view to an industry that highly prioritizes safety and efficiency. They can help carry out rescue missions and reduce work hours lost due to injuries, medical expenses, insurance costs, and the number of workplace events reported to regulatory agencies.
4. Operational Efficiency: Drones can improve operational efficiency by reducing the time and resources required to complete tasks. This can lead to significant cost savings and increased productivity.
Overall, the use of drones in these industries can lead to significant improvements in productivity, safety, efficiency, profitability, and sustainability.
benefits
1. Remote Monitoring and Surveillance: Drones are primarily used for remote monitoring and surveillance of infrastructure, equipment, tankers, trucks, and other assets¹. They provide a 360-degree view for monitoring field operations and can observe the progress of facilities under construction.
2. Inspection and Predictive Maintenance: Drones can be customized to include ultrasonic sensors and visual inspection technologies for carrying out a close-range nondestructive inspection of oil and gas assets to detect flaws or defects¹. Merging drone data with advanced data analytics allows companies to predict the current health of the equipment and project potential malfunctions¹.
3. Methane Management: Oil and gas companies are targeting methane reductions from operations to support the worldwide campaign against climate change and global warming¹. Drones mounted with sensing technologies can obtain real-time data for this purpose¹.
4. Emergency Response: Drones can provide a bird’s eye view of developments in the event of an industrial accident or a natural disaster¹. Real-time drone imagery and video analytics can assist in mapping oil spills or fire incidents¹.
5. Cost Reduction: The use of drones has brought down company costs remarkably somewhere between 66 and 80 percent². They mitigate the high risks and costs typical to oil and gas inspections².
6. Safety Improvement: Drones enable employees to conduct inspection and monitoring tasks without exposing themselves to the typical dangers of operations³. As a result, work hours lost due to injuries decline, medical expenses and insurance costs shrink, and the number of workplace events reported to regulatory agencies drop³.
7. Data Quality Improvemen*: Drones provide unprecedented access to high-quality data in a fraction of the time at a lower human risk². They exhibit extremely stable flight and can be equipped with an array of sensors, simultaneously increasing inspection data quality².
In summary, drones have become an integral part of these industries due to their ability to improve safety, reduce costs, enhance data quality, and contribute to environmental sustainability.
2. Inspection and Predictive Maintenance: Drones can be customized to include ultrasonic sensors and visual inspection technologies for carrying out a close-range nondestructive inspection of oil and gas assets to detect flaws or defects¹. Merging drone data with advanced data analytics allows companies to predict the current health of the equipment and project potential malfunctions¹.
3. Methane Management: Oil and gas companies are targeting methane reductions from operations to support the worldwide campaign against climate change and global warming¹. Drones mounted with sensing technologies can obtain real-time data for this purpose¹.
4. Emergency Response: Drones can provide a bird’s eye view of developments in the event of an industrial accident or a natural disaster¹. Real-time drone imagery and video analytics can assist in mapping oil spills or fire incidents¹.
5. Cost Reduction: The use of drones has brought down company costs remarkably somewhere between 66 and 80 percent². They mitigate the high risks and costs typical to oil and gas inspections².
6. Safety Improvement: Drones enable employees to conduct inspection and monitoring tasks without exposing themselves to the typical dangers of operations³. As a result, work hours lost due to injuries decline, medical expenses and insurance costs shrink, and the number of workplace events reported to regulatory agencies drop³.
7. Data Quality Improvemen*: Drones provide unprecedented access to high-quality data in a fraction of the time at a lower human risk². They exhibit extremely stable flight and can be equipped with an array of sensors, simultaneously increasing inspection data quality².
In summary, drones have become an integral part of these industries due to their ability to improve safety, reduce costs, enhance data quality, and contribute to environmental sustainability.