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Innovative UAV Oil and Gas Pipeline Patrol Mode

Without terrain and space limitation, UAV patrol is especially applicable to patrol in segments that are hard for personnel to reach and where full-scale manual detection is impossible.

How UAVs can assist oil and gas pipeline aerial patrol.

Complete Data Acquisition

UAVs are capable of photographing the conditions of oil and gas transfer pipeline in a full scale and acquiring images in a 360° manner, which improves the patrol inspection quality significantly.

Guaranteed Personal Safety

UAV operation eliminates hidden safety troubles in traditional pipeline patrol and guarantees personal safety.

Applications

Challenges in Oil and Gas Pipeline Patrol

Pipeline is long and manpower cost in frequent manual patrol is high.

Evidence collection is difficult in case of pipe damage and it is impossible to timely find foul occupation and construction.

Patrol is slow, refinement degree is low, and it is impossible to master leaking points and leakage concentration timely.

Patrol in special no-man environments such as remote mountainous areas and desert costs much and is accompanied with a low efficiency.

UAV Application Advantages

Carrying devices such as photography measurement unit and laser radar, UAVs are capable of generating high-accuracy 3D oil and gas transfer channel models for physical condition analysis on oil and gas transfer lines and subsequent automatic patrol.

Because powerline and gas line pass through high mountains and forests, some roads are hard for personnel to reach. However, UAVs are free from those scenic limits and capable of reaching the site in the first time.

Solution

Flight Platform

TA-Q12 Multi-Rotor UAV

Mission Payload

Multispectral Sensor

Pan&Tilt Zoom Camera

Dual-Light Pod

Tonghua Laser Methane/Ethane Tester

Ground Control Station

Portable Control Station

Pickup Truck or Small Van (for Land Maneuvers)

Differential Base Station

Ground Link Terminal

Airborne Satcom Equipment

Land-Based Satcom Control Station

Nested UAV TOL Platform

Core Concerns

Mission Payload Adaptability

Endurance

Flight Distance

Flight Control Stability of Interrupted Links

Maneuverability

Operational Cost

Operation Complexity