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Field & aerial services
Survey, inspection and pipeline leak detection, flown in-house.
We operate our own drones across the assets we build for — survey, site selection, route study and pipeline leak detection — and the imagery feeds our engineering models rather than sitting in a folder.
Pad and facility inspection, impoundment and containment review, haul-road and corridor assessment, site selection for new infrastructure, gas-and-thermal pipeline patrol, and agricultural survey and spray application. Because the same team builds the routing, pipeline and plant models, the survey is part of the engineering rather than a service bought in and handed over.
Keeping this in-house also means we can re-fly quickly when a question comes up, instead of scheduling a vendor.
- Facility & pad survey — condition and layout capture for engineering and compliance.
- Corridor & route study — haul road and pipeline routing assessed from the air.
- Site selection — candidate siting screened against distance, access and terrain.
- Containment review — impoundment and liner inspection without putting anyone on the berm.
- Agricultural services — aerial crop and field survey, stand assessment and application mapping.
- Spray services — targeted aerial spray application over fields, rights-of-way and hard-to-reach terrain.
- Repeat monitoring — scheduled passes compared over time to show change.
Aerial survey footage — Explore operations
Aerial pipeline leak detection
Finding leaks from the air, before they become incidents.
A buried line gives its first warning at the surface — a thermal anomaly, a hydrocarbon plume, stressed vegetation, a wet spot on the right of way — long before a pressure signature is unambiguous. We fly the corridor on programmed flight lines so it gets surveyed on a schedule rather than when somebody has time, and put every detection in front of the crew who can act on it.
Each detection is pinned to the exact location on the line, so a finding becomes a work order instead of a search.
- Programmed corridor patrol — repeatable flight lines along the right of way, flown on a schedule.
- Gas & thermal payloads — optical gas imaging, thermal and multispectral sensing for hydrocarbon and temperature anomalies.
- Automated anomaly detection — imagery processed to flag seeps, wet spots, vegetation stress, exposed pipe and unauthorised encroachment.
- Georeferenced findings — every detection tied to pipeline stationing and routed with its imagery to the responsible crew.
- Change detection over time — repeat passes compared against the baseline to catch slowly developing leaks.
- Correlated with the control room — aerial findings cross-checked against pressure and flow imbalance.
Schematic — drone corridor leak survey
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