Drones for Oil & Gas

Meet inspection mandates. Reduce operational exposure.

Infrastructure-grade inspection and response across distributed facilities.

Deploy drones as infrastructure, operated on-site or remotely, with layered safety controls built to stay within defined operational boundaries and regulatory requirements. Inspect more often to detect issues early. Secure facilities with continuous overwatch. Respond to incidents with real-time awareness—day or night.

Intelligence, available now.

Put eyes on operating assets in seconds, without waiting on specialized crews or shutting down the work.

See operating assets up close.

Navigate dense steel, tight pipe racks, and GPS-challenged areas to capture consistent views when access is limited and operations can’t pause.

Skydio X10 navigating in between pipe racks

Go inside.

Navigate GPS-denied, zero-light environments inside tanks, vessels, and enclosed infrastructure, reducing confined entry exposure and accelerating condition assessment.

Detect the anomaly. Verify the fix.

Visual and thermal capture reveal corrosion, insulation loss, coating damage, and heat anomalies at safe standoff distances. Repeat viewpoints to confirm repairs and track change over time.

Analyze assets in 3D.

Repeatable reality capture enables measurement, anomaly verification, and comparison over time, supporting engineering decisions with documented evidence.

Maintain continuous situational awareness.

Autonomous patrols and alarm-triggered launches reduce blind spots around refineries, terminals, and tank farms. Respond to incidents with live aerial context while keeping personnel outside the hazard zone.

Patrol miles of pipeline without dispatching a truck.

Pipeline right-of-way patrol has relied on manned aircraft for decades. Skydio F10 flies it autonomously, launched from a dock remotely, to flag a leak or encroachment before it becomes a spill.

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Autonomous operations, remotely deployed.

With Dock for X10 and Ops Center, inspection and response become scheduled, repeatable operations, launched when the site needs data, not when crews are available*.

Establish fixed aerial coverage across distributed facilities, reducing truck rolls and enabling faster fault verification.

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*with appropriate FAA approvals

The solution for inspection, response, and security.

X10

The best sensors for a drone this small, piloted by the most advanced AI in the sky.

X10 combines high-resolution visual and radiometric thermal sensors with advanced AI autonomy in a rugged, backpack-portable drone that deploys in under a minute.

X10 combines high-resolution visual and radiometric thermal sensors with advanced AI autonomy in a rugged, backpack-portable drone. Capture critical data for emergency response, asset inspection, site security, situational awareness, and mapping, even in complex or GPS-denied environments.

Dock for X10

Drones at the ready for 911 calls, incident management, site security, asset inspection and emergency response.

Dock for X10 positions drones where the work happens, protecting and charging the aircraft between flights so teams can launch scheduled or on-demand missions without an onsite pilot.

Dock for X10 positions drones where the work happens so teams can remotely launch scheduled or on-demand missions without an onsite pilot. It protects and charges X10 between flights and keeps the aircraft ready for incident response, inspections, security patrols, and continuous site operations.

MegaDock

Autonomous launch and recovery for an always-ready F10 fleet.

MegaDock is the autonomous docking station for F10 Lightrunner, housing up to five aircraft. Robotic Takeoff and Landing (RTOL) launches and recovers them with no runway or crew on site.

MegaDock keeps up to five F10s charged, secure, and ready for rapid response inside a weather-sealed enclosure. Its Robotic Takeoff and Landing (RTOL) system launches and recovers each aircraft automatically—no runway or ground crew required—so teams remotely cover concurrent incidents and maintain coverage through handoffs.

F10 Lightrunner

Go farther, get there faster and stay on scene longer.

F10 Lightrunner is an autonomous, dock-based fixed-wing drone built for long-range, rapid-response missions that reach well beyond the coverage of a multirotor aircraft.

F10 Lightrunner is an autonomous, dock-based fixed-wing drone built for long-range, rapid-response missions. It flies up to 100 mph, with a coverage radius of 30 miles, with an endurance of 2 hours or more, giving teams fast aerial access and sustained overwatch across large and remote operating areas.

R10

For tight quarters and total confidence. See what's inside from the outside.

R10 is a compact indoor drone built to navigate confined, cluttered, and zero-light spaces—from a building interior to a tank or tunnel—so you can risk the machine, not the person.

R10 is a compact indoor drone built to navigate confined, cluttered, and zero-light environments. AI-driven autonomy, onboard lighting, communications, live streaming, and automated backtracking give teams visibility in hard-to-reach spaces before anyone has to step inside and take the risk.

Ops Center

Where drone operations come together.

Ops Center is where drone operations come together across teams, aircraft, and sites, from mission planning and remote flight to fleet, user, and data management.

Ops Center is where drone operations come together across teams, aircraft, and sites. Plan repeatable missions, fly remotely, and manage your fleet, users, data, and integrations from one central workspace. Run rapid-response or scheduled flights and control one or many aircraft without being onsite.

Controller 2

Confidence in your hands.

Controller 2 puts confidence in your hands with a large, bright screen, customizable one-touch commands, reliable connectivity, and an ergonomic design built for long shifts.

Controller 2 gives operators confident control with a large, daylight-readable screen and an ergonomic design built for long shifts. Customizable controls keep essential flight actions within reach, and robust connectivity holds a reliable link to the aircraft at distance and in congested airspace.

Attachments

X10 readily adapts to serve your missions. Mount spotlights, speakers, droppers and more.

Customize X10 and X10D for your mission needs. With a modular body design that includes four attachment bays, it’s easy to mount spotlights, speakers, droppers and more.

Services

Launch, operate, and scale your drone program with experts beside you.

Services help organizations plan, deploy, and expand drone programs with hands-on guidance across strategy, training, implementation, support, and aviation regulations.

Skydio Services help organizations plan, deploy, and expand drone programs with hands-on guidance at every stage. Success Services covers strategy, training, implementation, and ongoing support, while Regulatory Services builds the documentation and FAA waivers that unlock BVLOS and advanced autonomous operations.

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Oil and Gas: Meet inspection mandates. Reduce operational exposure.

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Demo: 1 Remote Operator. 2 Inspections. 1 Response. No Field Dispatch.

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How ExxonMobil is Leveraging Aerial Robots for Inspection of Oil & Gas Infrastructure

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