Unmanned Aerial Systems for the Oil and Gas Industry: Overview, Applications, and Challenges

Thumeera R. Wanasinghe; Raymond G. Gosine; Oscar De Silva; George K. I. Mann; Lesley Anne James; Peter Warrian

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3020593

IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

Unmanned Aerial Systems for the Oil and Gas Industry: Overview, Applications, and Challenges

Thumeera R. Wanasinghe,
Raymond G. Gosine,
Oscar De Silva,
George K. I. Mann,
Lesley Anne James,
Peter Warrian

Affiliations

Thumeera R. Wanasinghe: ORCiD; Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada
Raymond G. Gosine: ORCiD; Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada
Oscar De Silva: ORCiD; Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada
George K. I. Mann: ORCiD; Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada
Lesley Anne James: Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada
Peter Warrian: Innovation Policy Laboratory, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3020593
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8
pp. 166980 – 166997

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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.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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