UAVs can carry various payloads and play a role of transmission of detection and surveillance information in oil and gas exploration and construction, which can reduce manpower to a certain extent and improve the efficiency.
How UAVs can assist oil and gas exploration support.
Exploration Phase
Apply UAVs in aviation geophysical prospecting, pipeline surveying and mapping, and site basic data collection.
Construction Phase
Equip UAVs with sensors to acquire the construction progress, on-site material stacking status, etc., on a full scale.
Applications
Challenges in Oil and Gas Exploration and Engineering Construction
Because more oil and gas exploration sites are in mountainous areas, signal transmission is hard and it is difficult to guarantee personal safety in real time.
Exploration equipment is heavy, material transportation is hard in complex terrain areas, and it is difficult to erect instruments and apparatuses.
The 3D geological model set-up is hard, the accuracy is low, and the reality pictures are not consistent with the 2D and 3D diagrams.
UAV Application Advantages
UAVs can carry a communication relay to transmit images and information in real time.
Great-load unmanned helicopters are applicable to remote exploration material delivery and transportation.
Stack measurement and 3D modeling are available when UAVs carry laser surveying and mapping equipment for high-accuracy terrain surveying and mapping.
UAVs can assist channel diagram making and inspection for powerline and pipeline preinstallation.
UAVs can carry exploration equipment in the specialties of aviation gravity and magnetic force for low-altitude geophysical prospecting to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency.