HEAVY OCTOCOPTER FLIGHT + TRAILER/REMUDA / POINTER/STATUS: IN DEVELOPMENT
Remuda + Pointer
Remuda is a gas-hybrid heavy octocopter built to work all day in wind and dust. Four of them ride a single towed trailer, launch together from the deck, split a lease between them along the shortest non-overlapping routes, and come close in on each wellhead to sniff for leaks and photograph what they find. Pointer is the sensor head each aircraft carries.
4 UP
AT ONCE, ONE TRUCK
SPECIFICATION
- CONFIGURATION
- Coaxial octocopter, 8 rotors on 4 folding arms
- SPAN
- 2.2 m, folds to 0.9 m for the trailer rack
- POWER
- Gasoline generator hybrid, battery buffer for lift
- TARGET ENDURANCE
- 3 hr hover-capable (bench + flight test ongoing)
- LAUNCH
- Towed 4-bay trailer, all four airborne inside 5 min
- POINTER SENSORS
- Laser CH4, H2S, VOC, LWIR, high-res optical
- AUTONOMY
- Shared route split, obstacle avoidance, radar + lidar
- WEATHER
- Design target 25 kt sustained wind, sealed to IP55
- MATURITY
- Bench prototypes; no field deployment yet
- ORIGIN
- Designed and assembled in the United States
WHAT IT’S FOR
- 01One truck parking on a section line and clearing every wellhead on the block before lunch.
- 02Close-in methane and H2S sniffs at the stuffing box and valve stack, not a pass at altitude.
- 03A dated photo set and gas reading for every well in an acquired package, without a windshield crew.
WHAT IT ISN’T
Remuda is not a delivery drone and not a fixed monitoring installation. It is a crew of aircraft that covers ground a truck cannot, and it does not replace a technician with a wrench.
RENDERS ARE ENGINEERING CONCEPTS. FIELD OUTPUT SHOWN AS SIMULATED IS LABELLED AS SUCH.
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