Abstract
Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) represent an evolving technology with enormous potential to revolutionize the oil and gas industry by providing a more efficient, fast, safe, and cost-effective way to perform a variety of field activities. Recently, UAS has received considerable attention from the oil and gas industry. The objective of this review article is to highlight the usability of UAS for the oil and gas industry, focussing mainly on UAS applications and the opportunities and challenges of UAS deployment in such oil and gas applications. Additionally, this paper also covers the available sensory systems for UAS and provides some recommendations to select a UAS for a given oil and gas application.
Highlights
World energy demand keeps increasing, and the oil and gas (O&G) is likely to remain the primary source to meet this ever-increasing energy demand [1]–[3]
Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are at the forefront of digital adoption to address the limitations associated with a range of inspection, monitoring, and surveillance activities associated with the O&G industry [11]–[15]
OVERVIEW OF UAS Before presenting the findings of the literature review, this section provides an abstract level introduction to UAS and its classifications. This is a general introduction and does not add value to researchers in the UAS domain, it will be useful for some researchers from the O&G industry who are new to UAS
Summary
World energy demand keeps increasing, and the oil and gas (O&G) is likely to remain the primary source to meet this ever-increasing energy demand [1]–[3]. There is a large body of literature that discusses the deployment of UAS for the O&G industry These implementations demonstrate the utility of UAS for the O&G industry, there are several technological and regulatory challenges yet to be addressed before there will be industry-wide adoption. Most of these research articles include one or two applications but do not provide an overall status of UAS adoption to date for the O&G industry to date. The objective of this review article is to present the current status of the UAS adoption in the O&G industry, focussing mainly on UAS applications in the O&G industry and opportunities and challenges of UAS deployment in such applications.
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