Autonomous drones across overground pipelines, magnetic crawler NDT inside FPSO process decks, for any operator, on any asset.
Overground and elevated pipelines crossing long distances of open terrain, inspected continuously, autonomously, and without crew exposure. Optical, thermal and ultrasonic sensors detect leaks, corrosion and thermal anomalies in real time.
A Prime Sentinel inspection drone flies pre-programmed routes along surface and elevated oil & gas pipelines, covering tens of kilometres per sortie across remote terrain, swamp, and right-of-way without dispatching a ground crew.
Each drone carries a synchronised sensor stack, high-resolution optical, FLIR thermal, and ultrasonic stand-off probes, capturing weld, coating, and surface condition data at survey speed against the pipe material profile.
Live sensor feeds are compared at the edge against a reference library of millions of pipe conditions. Leaks, oil seepage, corrosion patches, pressure anomalies and dimensional deviations are scored and flagged immediately, no shutdown required.
Where drones cannot reach, inside a producing FPSO's process deck, the Sentinel crawler delivers the same NDT scope an offshore team would run. Wall thickness, corrosion mapping, weld integrity. Measured in place, on live pipework.
A typical turret-moored FPSO runs 250 to 330 metres long and processes crude continuously offshore. Drones cover the topsides; the confined process deck is closed to them. The Sentinel crawler takes over there.
The crawler clamps directly to ferrous pipework, vertical, horizontal, overhead, and traverses around flanges, valves and supports inside tight module spaces. It works alongside production, with no hot-work permit and no rope-access spread.
Onboard UT thickness gauges, phased-array probes and HD optical capture wall loss, internal corrosion, pitting, weld defects and coating condition. Same NDT scope an offshore team would run, delivered remotely, logged into the integrity dashboard.
Drone surveys of overground corridors and crawler NDT inside FPSO process decks feed the same Prime Sentinel integrity dashboard. Operators move from reactive, permit-heavy inspection campaigns to continuous, AI-driven asset intelligence, reducing shutdowns, exposure hours, and unplanned losses across onshore and offshore portfolios.
Co-developed by Prime Teknologies UK and Prime Digital Tek Nigeria, in partnership with Brobags Limited.
