I-Corps: An integrated wide-area unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aeromagnetic survey system targeting orphaned oil and gas wells

I-Corps：针对孤立油气井的综合广域无人机 (UAV) 航磁勘测系统

• 批准号: 2037694
• 负责人: Alex Nikulin
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Binghamton
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2037694&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; integrated; wide; area; unmanned

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the development of a system capable of accurately detecting, assessing, and plugging methane-emitting orphaned oil and gas wells. This remediation would effectively remove the equivalent of 125,000 cars off the road annually, allowing New York to come closer to its ambitious goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. In addition to the environmental benefits of this effort, accurately identifying locations of presently unknown wells would allow for subsequent economic redevelopment in areas where new construction and infrastructure improvement are significantly impeded by the presence of unmarked well sites. In addition, it is anticipated that as unmanned aircraft system platforms are adopted as part of geophysical survey toolkits across multiple industries, the proposed technology will expand to offer additional aeromagnetic survey solutions in the fields of unexploded ordnance detection, geological mapping, mineral exploration, and buried infrastructure analysis.This I-Corps project is based on the development of an automated wide-area unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based geophysical survey system that scans hundreds of acres a day and accurately locates abandoned oil and gas wells year-round in difficult terrains and dense vegetation. While UAV systems have gained recognition and customer demand across multiple sectors has increased, their use in automated geophysical surveys has remained relatively limited. The proposed technology allows the UAVs to acquire, process, interpret, and map datasets, delivering actionable maps to stakeholders that allow subsequent ground verification, classification, and prioritization of wells for remediation. In addition, the technology includes the design of an automated UAV-based aeromagnetic survey system for rapid assessment of large geographical areas for presence of unmarked, abandoned oil and gas wells. Field trials, conducted in close collaboration with environmental regulators, demonstrated that automated UAV aeromagnetic surveys are more efficient than both terrestrial and piloted aeromagnetic surveys; These surveys address a critical technological gap in the effort to detect and map orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个i-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是开发一种能够准确检测、评估和封堵排放甲烷的孤立油气井的系统。这一补救措施将相当于每年减少12.5万辆汽车上路，使纽约更接近其雄心勃勃的目标，即到2050年实现净零碳排放。除了这一努力的环境效益外，准确识别目前未知油井的位置将使随后在新的建设和基础设施改善因未标记井址的存在而严重受阻的地区进行经济重建。此外，预计随着无人机系统平台被用作多个行业的地球物理调查工具包的一部分，拟议的技术将扩大到在未爆弹药探测、地质测绘、矿产勘探和地下基础设施分析领域提供更多的航磁调查解决方案。这个i-Corps项目基于基于自动广域无人机(UAV)的地球物理调查系统的开发，该系统每天扫描数百英亩土地，并全年准确地定位困难地形和茂密植被中的废弃油气井。虽然无人机系统得到了认可，多个部门的客户需求增加，但它们在自动化地球物理调查中的使用仍然相对有限。拟议的技术允许无人机获取、处理、解释和绘制数据集，向利益相关者提供可操作的地图，以便随后对油井进行地面验证、分类和确定补救的优先顺序。此外，该技术还包括设计一种基于无人机的自动航磁测量系统，用于快速评估大片地理区域是否存在未标记的废弃油气井。与环境监管机构密切合作进行的现场试验表明，自动无人机航磁调查比地面和飞行员航磁调查更有效；这些调查解决了在探测和绘制孤立和废弃油气井的努力中的关键技术差距。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Successful application of drone-based aeromagnetic surveys to locate legacy oil and gas wells in Cattaraugus county, New York

成功应用基于无人机的航磁勘测来定位纽约州卡塔劳格斯县的遗留油气井

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2020.104250
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of Applied Geophysics
• 影响因子: 2
• 作者: de Smet, Timothy S.;Nikulin, Alex;Romanzo, Natalia;Graber, Nathan;Dietrich, Charles;Puliaiev, Andrii
• 通讯作者: Puliaiev, Andrii