Crude Intelligence

THE FLEET/FOUR SYSTEMS/STAGED HONESTLY

Aerial, deployable, downhole, and the record they write.

FIXED WING VTOL/VAQUERO/STATUS: IN FLIGHT TEST

Vaquero

Vaquero takes off vertically from a caliche pad and transitions to wing-borne flight for a full working day. It returns with an orthomosaic, a thermal pass, and a track of everything it saw.

Engineering render of the Vaquero fixed-wing VTOL survey aircraft
GEN 1 CONCEPT — ENGINEERING RENDER

SPECIFICATION

CONFIGURATION
Fixed wing VTOL, 4 lift + 1 pusher
WINGSPAN
3.5 m
MTOW
24 kg
TARGET ENDURANCE
10 hr (bench + flight test ongoing)
CRUISE
22 m/s
PAYLOAD
Gimballed optical + LWIR turret, 2.4 kg
OPERATION
Part 107; building to Part 108 DAA + conspicuity
ORIGIN
Designed and assembled in the United States

WHAT IT’S FOR

  1. 01Weekly full-lease imagery across scattered pads in Reeves County instead of a quarterly contract flight.
  2. 02Thermal screening of tank batteries and separators over a whole Delaware Basin block in a single sortie.
  3. 03Locating undocumented wellbores on ranch acreage in the Anadarko where no plat shows them.

WHAT IT ISN’T

Vaquero is not a survey-grade photogrammetry replacement for lidar-based reserves work. It is for frequency — seeing your field weekly instead of quarterly.

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MULTIROTOR CARRIER + PODS/REMUDA / POINTER/STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT

Remuda + Pointer

Remuda is a heavy-lift carrier with a magazine of Pointer pods slung beneath it. It sets a pod beside a wellhead or a tank hatch, leaves it to listen, and retrieves it on a later pass.

Engineering render of the Remuda carrier quadcopter with Pointer sensor pods
GEN 1 CONCEPT — ENGINEERING RENDER

SPECIFICATION

CONFIGURATION
Quadcopter carrier, folding arms
SPAN
1.4 m
PAYLOAD BAY
4 × Pointer pods, magazine rack
POD SENSORS
CH4, H2S, VOC, pressure, temperature
POD DWELL
Design target 30 days on internal cell
PLACEMENT
Autonomous set-down and retrieval
MATURITY
Bench prototypes; no field deployment yet
ORIGIN
Designed and assembled in the United States

WHAT IT’S FOR

  1. 01Leaving a methane pod on a suspect tank hatch for a month rather than sending a sniffer truck twice.
  2. 02H2S monitoring at a sour battery where nobody wants to stand and take a reading.
  3. 03Instrumenting a pad during a workover, then recovering the hardware when the crew leaves.

WHAT IT ISN’T

Remuda is not a delivery drone and not a permanent fixed monitoring installation. It is a way to move a small number of good sensors to a large number of places.

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DOWNHOLE INSPECTION VEHICLE/SOUNDER/STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT

Sounder

Sounder is an untethered downhole inspection vehicle — an instrument package that descends the wellbore and returns casing condition, pressure and temperature without a logging truck. Gen 1 is a gravity-deployed tool on a light line; we will say so plainly until that changes.

Engineering render of the Sounder downhole inspection tool inside a casing cutaway
GEN 1 CONCEPT — ENGINEERING RENDER

SPECIFICATION

FORM
Cylindrical tool, segmented body
DIAMETER
90 mm
LENGTH
1.2 m
DEPLOYMENT
Gen 1: gravity-deployed on light line, rigless
DATA
Casing condition, pressure, temperature, depth stamp
TARGET RATING
Design target 10,000 psi / 150 °C
MATURITY
Pressure-vessel design; no downhole runs yet
ORIGIN
Designed and assembled in the United States

WHAT IT’S FOR

  1. 01Screening four hundred stripper wells to find the twelve with a real integrity problem.
  2. 02Pre-plugging condition checks on wells covered by SB 1150 inactive-well requirements.
  3. 03Confirming what is actually downhole in an acquired package before the first workover budget is written.

WHAT IT ISN’T

Sounder is not a high-resolution acoustic imaging service and does not compete with premium intervention tooling. Those tools answer what exactly is wrong with one expensive well. Sounder answers whether anything is wrong with any of four hundred cheap ones.

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DATA LAYER/PLAT/STATUS: FLYING

Plat

Plat ingests orthomosaics, thermal frames, point clouds and pod telemetry and files them against wells and pads rather than against flights. Change over time is the product; a single survey is just the first row.

Photogrammetric point cloud of a tank battery and pumpjack rendered in false color
REPRESENTATIVE OUTPUT — SIMULATED

SPECIFICATION

INPUTS
Orthomosaic, LWIR / OGI, point cloud, pod telemetry
INDEXING
By well and pad, not by flight
CHANGE DETECTION
Pass-over-pass differencing
EXPORT
GeoTIFF, LAS, CSV, API
ACCESS
Operator-scoped; your data stays yours
HOSTING
US regions only
STATUS
In use on internal test flights
ORIGIN
Built in the United States

WHAT IT’S FOR

  1. 01Handing an EHS lead a dated record of a tank hatch instead of a folder of photographs.
  2. 02Showing a landowner what changed on their pasture between two passes.
  3. 03Ranking four hundred wells by what actually needs a truck this month.

WHAT IT ISN’T

Plat is not a GIS replacement and not a reserves model. It is the file cabinet for measurement.

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RENDERS ARE ENGINEERING CONCEPTS. FIELD OUTPUT SHOWN AS SIMULATED IS LABELLED AS SUCH.