Two players, Cyberhawk and Explicit, have started the ball rolling on an offshore drone campaign for emissions measurement in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, which is being undertaken on 33 offshore platforms operated by Equinor, Norway’s energy giant.

This launch, described as the largest offshore drone-based emissions monitoring campaign in the Norwegian North Sea under the United Nation’s Climate and Clean Air Coalition, Oil and Gas Methane Partnership (OGMP) 2.0 framework, is being conducted on Equinor’s assets, with Explicit, which uses unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology to monitor and quantify methane emissions, as prime contractor .