Terra Drone Co., Ltd. has completed its investment in RoNik Inspectioneering BV, a Dutch drone inspection service provider, and the company has announced that it has changed its name to Terra Inspectioneering.
RoNik has been providing services centered on inspection and maintenance of oil and gas storage tanks, including plate thickness inspection, for many years, and has a track record of more than 200 cases centered on major European oil and gas companies.
By using the drone for tank inspections, the inspection period will be shortened by 40 to 60%, which will reduce labor costs and losses due to facility shutdowns during inspections.
Terra Drone Co., Ltd. said, “Tera Drone will continue to strengthen its oil and gas business and globally deploy the latest UAV technology around the world.”
Terra Drone Co., Ltd. (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, CEO / Toru Tokushige, hereinafter Terra Drone) has completed its investment in RoNik Inspectioneering BV (Netherlands, hereinafter RoNik), which provides drone inspection services in the Netherlands. Has changed.
RoNik, which established a local subsidiary with Terra Drone this time, has been providing services centered on inspection and maintenance of oil & gas storage tanks including plate thickness inspection for many years, and 200 cases mainly by major European oil & gas companies. We have the above achievements. (Click here for a video about the inspection process: https://vimeo.com/290357142 ) Furthermore, we have responded to the needs of a wide range of customers by using not only drones but also ground and water inspection robots. In April of this year, he was selected as one of the top drone companies in Europe at the Drone Hero Europe 2019 contest held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
By utilizing the company’s drone for tank inspection, the time required for assembling and removing temporary scaffolding, which was conventionally required for work at high places, will be reduced, and the inspection period will be shortened by 40 to 60%. Therefore, it is possible to reduce labor costs and loss due to facility shutdown during inspection.
The weight of the aircraft used is about 2.5 kg for safe flight. It is equipped with a Dutch patented contact catalyst (kaplant) dispenser, which allows the probe to be supplied with kaplant even during flight, enabling efficient inspection. In addition, three high-precision cameras are installed, and you can immediately check the image from the drone in flight and the UT graph from the ground. As a deliverable, we also provide inspection reports conforming to standards such as API-653 and EEMUA 159, and 3D model inspection data through cloud services.
Currently, in the oil and gas industry in Japan and overseas, the use of digital technology is rapidly advancing for the purpose of improving plant utilization rate. Through our global network of more than 25 countries, we will provide RoNik’s non-destructive inspection technology and other UAV digital solutions worldwide.
Terra Drone will continue to strengthen its oil and gas business and globally deploy the latest UAV technology around the world.
■ Terra Drone Co., Ltd.
The world’s largest industrial drone solution provider with branch offices in more than 25 countries around the world, including the Tokyo head office and 7 branch offices nationwide, as well as Asia, Europe, South America, Africa, and Oceania. Overseas, we are accelerating the development of maintenance and inspection services centered on the fields of oil & gas, electric power, and mining, and we also provide solutions in a wide range of fields such as construction, GIS, and UTM. He has many achievements such as large-scale government projects for disaster recovery and land readjustment and long-distance transmission line inspections.
In Japan, we have more than 600 drone surveying records, mainly from major general contractors, construction machinery manufacturers, surveying companies, etc., and i-Construction’s UAV surveying results are among the best in Japan. Currently, based on the track record of more than 300 UAV laser measurements in Japan and overseas, we have succeeded in developing the LiDAR system “Terra Lidar” jointly developed with Waseda University. We are expanding sales both domestically and internationally.
In 2016, as the largest shareholder, we invested in Unifly (Belgium), which develops and services drone control systems (UTM), and completed additional investment last year. We are developing UTM systems all over the world.
We will continue to invest in companies around the world with cutting-edge drone technology.
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