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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.
4 PODS
PER SORTIE
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
- 01Leaving a methane pod on a suspect tank hatch for a month rather than sending a sniffer truck twice.
- 02H2S monitoring at a sour battery where nobody wants to stand and take a reading.
- 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.
RENDERS ARE ENGINEERING CONCEPTS. FIELD OUTPUT SHOWN AS SIMULATED IS LABELLED AS SUCH.
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