Same system. Harsher site.
Oil & gas reality capture
A terminal has the same problem as a jobsite — the people who need to see it are rarely standing on it — plus a few construction never has: half the facility is decades older than its drawings, the parts worth looking at are high, hot or hard to reach, and the only time anything is open is a window somebody paid dearly for.
No. 1 producing state — about 4 in 10 US barrelsUS Energy Information Administration, 2024
$550 per documented visit, same as every market. Published rates →
The problems we get hired for
Old steel, hard access, short windows.
“The revamp engineer wants a model of a unit built in 1978.”
How we solve it
Laser scanning while the unit runs, registered into a point cloud — and where the project calls for it, scan-to-BIM or scan-to-CAD modelling of the racks, vessels and structure. Tie-in packages get engineered against as-found geometry, and the new skid gets clash-checked against the rack it has to fit before fabrication cuts steel.
“Getting eyes on the flare tip means scaffold, rope access, or a shutdown.”
How we solve it
A drone visual pass returns high-resolution imagery of the stack, the tank shells and the rack while the plant keeps running — and your qualified people read it from a desk instead of a harness.
“The turnaround is the only look inside we get for four years.”
How we solve it
Documentation while exchangers are pulled and lines are open — what was found, what was replaced, what went back — indexed by unit and date, sitting in the record when the next planner scopes the next outage.
“Forty sites, three counties, one person responsible for all of them.”
How we solve it
One crew on a route: orthomosaics of every terminal and tank farm for planning, 360 records of compressor stations, all of it indexed by site and date and visible from one desk.
The other four.
Data centers
Schedule-critical, spatially large, and watched by people who are never on site. Recurring documentation across earthwork, steel, MEP, equipment pads and commissioning.
Industrial & logistics
Large footprints, tight schedules, and tilt-wall and roofing sequences that reward exact repeat coverage from the same flight path.
Multifamily
Repeated floorplates and hundreds of units make interior 360 history and pre-close documentation worth more than they look. Less glamorous, rewards discipline.
Aviation & transportation
Long programs, staged handovers and heavy reporting obligations. Airspace here is genuinely complex and it is planned for, not discovered on the day.
Send one schedule from a job like this.
Send a schedule or a site address. You get back which phases, which instruments, which windows, and what each visit produces. Free, and yours to keep.
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