UAV Imaging serves Lloydminster and the surrounding heavy-oil belt straddling the Alberta-Saskatchewan border with an industrial drone-services menu built for the region's mix of heavy-oil production and upgrading, gathering-system infrastructure, and the grain and oilseed farms of the Lloydminster plain. Crews stage from the region for multi-day facility and pipeline deployments and quote travel up front.
Services available in Lloydminster
- Drone inspection services — heavy-oil facility structures, tanks, treaters, flare and vent stacks, gathering-line crossings
- Aerial methane survey — gathering systems and well pads screened with the Pergam Falcon TDLAS sensor on the Matrice 300 RTK
- Drone mapping & pit plans — facility site plans, lease as-built, borrow-pit volumes
- Drone stockpile measurement — aggregate, sand and salt pile volume reports
- Confined-space tank inspection — Flyability Elios 2 collision-tolerant drone for internal tank and vessel inspection without entry
- Multispectral crop scouting — NDVI mapping for grain and oilseed operations across the Lloydminster plain
Industries served around Lloydminster
- Heavy-oil production and upgrading — facility, tank and structural inspection, aerial methane screening
- Midstream and gathering — pipeline crossing and right-of-way patrol, gathering-system leak survey
- Aggregate — borrow-pit and stockpile volume along the Highway 16 corridor
- Grain and oilseed agriculture — multispectral scouting and variable-rate mapping support
Service area
UAV Imaging works Lloydminster on both sides of the border plus Lashburn, Marshall, Marwayne, Kitscoty, Vermilion, Wainwright and the surrounding County of Vermilion River. Larger facility and pipeline scopes stage out of Lloydminster hotels on multi-day deployments.
Why hire a drone operator familiar with heavy-oil country
The Lloydminster region pairs dense heavy-oil infrastructure with active agriculture, and the facility work in particular carries contractor-compliance and safety expectations that a general aerial-photo operator is not set up for. UAV Imaging arrives with the certifications, the site-safety registrations and the payloads — Matrice 300 RTK, H20T thermal, Pergam Falcon methane, Elios 2 confined-space — that match the work border-region operators actually buy.
Compliance and credentials
- Transport Canada Advanced RPAS certified pilots on every flight
- $5M aviation liability insurance (above the 2026 $2M minimum)
- ISN, ComplyWorks, Avetta registered
- Site-Specific Operations Risk Assessment (SORA) on higher-risk operations
- 2026 Remote ID compliant fleet