Tomskneft Starts Using Drones

摘要

Tomskneft starts using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to monitor its pipeline routes and the oil and gas production assets. Testing of drones built under a domestic technology started at the Sovetskoye and Vakhskoye fields located in the Strezhevsky District. Tomskneft, a JV of Rosneft and Gazprom Neft, produces oil and gas in the Tomsk Region and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District. Given the acreage of Tomskneft operations and the significant length of pipelines with various purposes (about 5,000 kilometers) the use of drones will help resolve a number of issues, in particular to improve the quality of pipeline condition monitoring, to enhance reliability of pipeline operations, to ensure detection of unauthorized access to the pipeline protection zone.