UAV Services

With the use of remotely operated vehicles technology becoming widespread in the industry, the same logic that justifies their share in the market is being applied to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technologies. A safe way to inspect “at height” or difficult to access areas, UAV inspections provide hi-definition data to support critical maintenance decisions.

UAVs has been deployed in a variety of inspection applications, both onshore and offshore, and its limits are still being explored:

• General visual inspections (GVI);
• Pre-Decommissioning inspections / Decommission observation;
• Windfarm assests inspections
• Topside inspections – Derrick / Crown Block / Top Drive / Flare;
• Underdeck and Splash-zone Inspections;
• Close visual inspections (CVI);
• Collision-tolerant confined space inspections;
• Infrared thermal inspections.

UAVs offer the unique opportunity to perform visual inspection while the asset is in operation, even before a planned shutdown. The cost savings of avoiding a downtime are clear, but unmanned, battery operated UAVs also reduce the risk exposure. The resultant data also allows clients to fully plan and budget shutdowns, locating and diagnosing potential issues in advance, covering all angles both visually and thermally.

Gulf offer drone expertise and support for:

• RTK drone measurements;
• Georeferenced data;
• Extra survey services on top to complete mapping data where drone surveys stop;
• Full orthophoto with accuracy 5mm – 20 mm/Pixel;
• Assured geometrically correct data to integrate easily in your software.

We also offer post processing services for DTM generation, volume calculation, risk assessment, GIS applications, Contour Maps, among others.

Benefits of UAV Inspections include:

• Reduce risk exposure;
• Better information to base shutdown planning;
• More productive and efficient shutdowns;
• High resolution still and video imagery for close visual and thermal inspections.