ZALA AERO was identified as the best in an open competitive selection to perform work in the interests of PJSC Slavneft-Megionneftegaz.
According to the terms of the agreement, ZALA flight teams will carry out aerial monitoring of the field pipelines using fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles in the territory of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.
The purpose of aerial monitoring of Slavneft-Megionneftegaz facilities is to promptly identify violations and technical deviations on the territory of the field pipeline routes and the adjacent territory, as well as to create orthophoto maps of the area, detailed report, and graphic maps for each object of interest.
At the end of the flights, collected data will be processed by specialized software based on artificial intelligence and neural networks for rapid and accurate processing of photo and video images.
Then, the processed data will be uploaded to the global monitoring system to ensure the Customer's secure access to all materials on the state of their infrastructure for timely action to eliminate the identified violations.
Aerial monitoring of the Slavneft-Megionneftegaz infrastructure using ZALA unmanned aircraft systems will be carried out from the beginning of 2021 to the end of 2023. The total guaranteed scope of work will be more than 400,000 km.
Since 2014, ZALA AERO has been performing aerial monitoring of the oil and gas infrastructure in the interests of the country's largest companies in the fuel industry – Rosneft, Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, LUKOIL, and Transneft in 40 regions of the Russian Federation.