Sunday, March 4, 2007
By Rob Stapleton
A participant at a recent Resource Development Council breakfast examines an Insitu unmanned aerial vehicle at the Petroleum Club in Anchorage. The Insitu UAV can be launched and retrieved on land or water after each mission. PHOTO/Rob Stapleton/AJOC
Unmanned aerial vehicles will aid oil exploration near the North Slope in the Beaufort Sea, according to officials from Shell Oil Co.
“Drones are being investigated as an alternative to manned aerial flights for marine mammal monitoring in order to reduce the safety risk to humans associated with flights over remote stretches of Arctic Ocean,” according to a written statement by Terzah Poe, a Shell Oil spokeswoman. “The unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone aircraft, would be used to monitor and track marine mammals in the areas where we are operating.”
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