Recently, the Honeycomb HC-342E six-rotor UAV in the CNOOC oil field offshore platform material transport successfully made its first flight.

This flight to Qinhuangdao 32-6 oil field century, CEPI platform, CEPJ platform as a flight site, HC-342E has completed the UAV wind resistance, load, battery life test;

And on the same day carried out night flight test, HC-342E with high-performance dual-screen ground station successfully completed long-range shouting, night search, material delivery and other tasks.

This time, the unusual maritime cargo transport, by the HC-342E inspection transport integrated drone replaced the traditional tri-use work boat.

The three-purpose work vessel is a deep-water operation three-purpose guard ship that provides a variety of characteristic operation services for offshore petroleum engineering, and sails in the infinite navigation zone/offshore navigation area. Ships can cruise at low speeds near offshore oil platforms, listen to the call of offshore platforms, provide them with materials and materials, carry out anchoring operations, tow operations, carry personnel and so on.

What are the advantages of UAV over ships?

01 Safe and efficient

The use of drones is easy to carry, simple to operate, rapid response and so on, when carrying out tasks can reduce the inspection operation of personnel, ship dispatch, when in case of emergency, compared to ships can be more rapid and safe scheduling work.

02 Data accuracy

Drones can take advantage of their broad perspective, flexible intelligence and other advantages, according to the scheduled route of autonomous flight, equipped with such as photovoltaic pods, infrared cameras, gas detectors and other task load equipment, accurate collection of various types of data information, for fine inspection and analysis.

03 Environmentally friendly

The HC-342E drone is powered by pure electricity, with a maximum range of 12.5 km and a maximum mission payload of 15 kg, saving time and effort compared to dispatching ships when transporting small items.

What is the role of drones on offshore platforms?

01 Smart "General Practitioner"

Drones are small, but they are "dirty." In the daily inspection of the offshore platform, some people vividly call it: "general practitioner", with a variety of tools, for the platform real-time "medical examination", carrying thermal imager, for all parts of the platform to measure "temperature";

02 Security patrol

Ship traffic seems to be unimpeded on the sea surface, but underwater is "hidden secret machine" - all over the pipeline, oil and gas, electricity, signal transmission are inseparable from these pipelines. When a ship breaks down, a huge anchor hook is likely to pull off these important pipelines, causing the platform to stop production and heavy causing safety accidents.

In addition to ship anchoring, from time to time there will be anglers of speedboats, net fishing vessels close to the platform, "patrol" once found the target, will be timely video forensics and warning removal.

03 "Delivery man"

Between sea platforms, there is often a need for small items to be transported, such as tools, parts, etc. Drones often require ship transportation before they can be put on duty, slow and inefficient. Now with drones, "slow delivery" into "express", save time and effort, energy saving and environmental protection, can be said to be a lot.

Weather conditions and platform size on offshore platforms can be challenging for drone missions. The successful first flight of the HC-342E represents the advantages of excellent overall performance, high reliability, long duration and strong adaptability of hive space drones, and is also a manifestation of intelligent new technology and new applications in the construction of china's smart oilfields and green oil fields.

Drones will also be used in many fields in oil field construction to achieve intelligent perception, intelligent identification, intelligent analysis, intelligent assistance, intelligent control, etc., improve inspection efficiency and quality, for the oil field green production, safe production, intelligent construction escort.