Redefining Automated Drone Operations in Oil and Gas with an Asset-First Approach

Most drone programs in oil and gas are built around the hardware. A dock is installed, a flight path is defined, missions run on a schedule. But without connecting the operation to the specific assets it is meant to serve, the data is hard to act on and hard to scale. An asset-first approach changes the starting point. You begin with what the asset requires, what needs to be monitored on a tank, a flare stack, a pipeline corridor, or an offshore structure, and build the drone operation to answer that question at scale. This session covers how oil and gas teams can rethink drone programs around asset intelligence, and what it takes to move from isolated deployments to a connected inspection program across an entire operation.