For nearly two decades, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been a core component of pipeline integrity management. GIS applications provide a highly-visual, map-based interface that operators use to analyze information from a multitude of sources in a single platform. Even with these open, powerful tools for data analysis, midstream operators are still struggling to get […]
Right-of-Way (ROW) monitoring is often a game of inches that takes place over weeks, months, or even years. Having a clear ROW is important, but performing the necessary inspections can be a burden that siphons your maintenance crew’s valuable time and effort. However, intrusions on your right-of-way can cause damage to above-ground infrastructure, interfere with […]
Pipeline operators have a difficult job that is only getting harder with each passing year. You have to manage hundreds of miles of aging infrastructure, that often exists in remote and rugged locations. In fact, pipelines are only getting more susceptible to leaks and other structural integrity issues as they grow older. Over the years, […]
Niall McCallum Bio: Living and breathing flight testing and deployment, I ensure that SkyX has robust aerial systems in place so customers can deploy their aerial monitoring solution with absolute confidence. Wherever SkyX is called, I navigate the logistics, regulations and overall government-compliance process to enable standards-based BVLOS operations for each of our international clients. […]
Being an asset operator in a midstream oil and gas company today isn’t easy. You need to manage the integrity and safety of aging pipeline infrastructure, often in remote locations, while mitigating risk and controlling costs. What’s more, if you’re like most organizations, you need to do it all while lacking high-quality data to make […]
People constantly ask me how I’m able to accomplish everything I do. Look, I get it, I’m a busy guy. I’m Chief Operating Officer of SkyX. I’m a chef who’s been on MasterChef Canada and hosts pop-up restaurants in his backyard. I have three wonderful teenagers and an all-star writer, photographer, baker of a wife. […]
It seems that roughly every decade, we make an advance in wireless telecommunications that propels our ability as a society forward, enabling incredible new technologies and services. In the early days of cellular communications, around the late 1980s and early 1990s (I won’t bother starting earlier since most of those earlier systems were too expensive […]
We’d barely wrapped up a post about the amazing accomplishments SkyX has achieved over the past year…when we chalked up yet another significant milestone. This one took place on December 10, with four members of the SkyX team on Salt Spring Island – one of the Gulf Islands between the BC mainland and Vancouver Island. […]
We realized, the other day, we were marking quite an anniversary. On November 23, 2017, the SkyX team executed an extraordinary mission that became the buzz of the oil and gas world. We took SkyOne, our Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft down to Mexico, along with about half the SkyX team. The goal? […]
FOR RELEASE MAY 7, 2018: SkyX Obtains Canada-Wide Standing SFOC SkyX Ltd., Canada’s leading long-range aerial data acquisition and analysis company, has received a nation-wide Standing Special Flight Operations Certificate, or SFOC, from Transport Canada. This will allow the company to conduct aerial survey and inspection flights across the country in uncontrolled airspace and within […]