DroneTalks | Delek US, the Fortune 500 Oil Company on Their Industry-First BVLOS Remote Operation Drone Flight

“We’re proud to be the first oil and gas company to utilise the BVLOS drone services and fly remotely piloted drones in Arkansas from our Nashville center”. Eszter Kovacs, CEO of DroneTalks, interviewed Ido Biger, the CIO and Data Officer DelekUS, at the 2023 Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas about the oil and gas user perspective of drone services. Delek US, a Fortune 500 downstream energy company, had an industry first on 1 August 2023. Using the Percepto True BVLOS waiver, the oil and gas company became the first to launch a US operations flight using Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) in a refinery. Eszter spoke with Ido about Delek US’s journey to reach this milestone, including their procurement of the FAA US waiver and how they adapted their company’s inner infrastructure to include the use of drones.