Ghost & Steele flies EPA-certified optical gas imaging (OGI) surveys over your well pads — the entire site scanned from the air, nobody on the ground near live equipment, and a regulator-ready report in your portal within 24–48 hours.
Get a Free LDAR Assessment → Call (406) 616-1611EPA's OOOOb/OOOOc methane rules put multi-well pads on a recurring OGI inspection schedule, with Appendix K protocols and real penalties per ton of methane. Handheld OGI crews walk your pad component by component — slow, expensive to mobilize, and a person standing next to live equipment in H2S country.
A crew drives out, walks the pad with a handheld camera, spends hours on-site, and invoices you for the day plus mobilization. In January, they may not come at all.
One aircraft covers the whole pad from the air — tanks, flares, thief hatches, connectors — in a fraction of the time. Findings flagged, documented, and filed to your secure portal. Leaks found are product saved.
Cooled OGI core on a stabilized gimbal — the same sensing class regulators expect, flown at optimal standoff for detection.
Findings, imagery, timestamps, and survey metadata formatted for your EPA recordkeeping — delivered in 24–48 hours.
Every survey lives in one place. Your whole pad history, trend over time, audit-ready — included free with every package.
A caught leak is methane you stop venting — sellable product back in the line and a fine you never pay.
Every operation is different — pad count, spacing, cadence, and what your permit requires. Tell us your pad list and we'll come back with one flat number per survey, in writing, usually within a day. No day rates, no surprise mobilization fees, and volume pricing that rewards a full route.
Quoted flat per pad, so you can budget the quarter before we ever fly.
The more pads on the schedule, the better the per-survey rate. Quarterly and monthly cadences both work.
Add visual and thermal equipment inspection to the same visit — one flight day, one invoice.
Jesse Grayson worked these locations before he flew over them — at −40°, in H2S country, on the pads you run today. National drone outfits won't fly western North Dakota in January. We're based in Watford City, and we will.
The Ventus OGI payload we operate carries EPA certifications for OOOOa/b/c and Appendix K protocols. We match the survey design to your permit's cadence and documentation requirements, and confirm acceptance with your regulatory contact before the first flight.
We arrive with pad access already coordinated (ISN/Veriforce documentation on file), fly the site, and you get flagged findings and the compliance report in your portal within 24–48 hours. Nobody on your crew needs to escort a camera around the pad.
Yes — that's the point. Cold, clear winter air is actually excellent for gas imaging. We're local, winter-rated, and don't charge mobilization from three states away.
U.S.-made aircraft, U.S. data handling, your own locked portal. Your pad data is yours and no one else's.
Two minutes to tell us your pad count. A free assessment call after.
Get My Free LDAR Assessment →Or call (406) 616-1611 · Jesse@ghostandsteele.com