Inspection Services
Safer, faster, and more thorough inspections for oil and gas, utilities, infrastructure, renewables, and industrial facilities — with deliverables your engineers can act on.
Practical, Decision-Ready Data
Mountain West Drone Services provides professional drone inspection and LiDAR-supported assessment services across Northwest Colorado, helping operators, owners, and engineers safely inspect assets that are difficult, dangerous, or expensive to reach. We deliver clear visual data, 3D information from LiDAR where needed, and repeatable inspection workflows.
Reduce or eliminate the need for ladders, manlifts, scaffolding, rope access, and other high-risk work at height.
Reach tall, remote, or obstructed structures without extensive setup or shutdowns whenever possible.
Cover large facilities or long corridors in a fraction of the time of traditional inspection methods.
Minimize equipment rentals, scaffolding, and repeated site visits.
When appropriate, use LiDAR point clouds and surfaces to understand 3D structure and terrain around your assets.
Build a visual and spatial record over time to track change, prove due diligence, and support maintenance planning.
What We Inspect
Document critical infrastructure and surface conditions across your production sites — well pads, tank batteries, separators, access roads, laydown areas, containment features, site grading, and drainage.
Typical Uses
Baseline condition documentation, routine visual checks, supporting environmental, safety, and integrity programs.
Reach tall and potentially hazardous structures safely from the air. Storage tanks, flare stacks, exhaust stacks, towers, chimneys, and tall support structures — high-resolution imagery from multiple angles.
Typical Uses
Reduced need for scaffolding and manlifts. Detailed documentation of visible defects, corrosion, or damage.
Monitor linear infrastructure efficiently and safely. Distribution line overflights, pole and hardware checks, vegetation encroachment documentation, and right-of-way condition assessments.
Typical Uses
Prioritize maintenance, improve vegetation management, support storm and incident response.
Inspect building exteriors and roofs without putting people at height. Commercial, industrial, and agricultural roofs, facades, gutters, parapets, flashing, and visible damage points.
Typical Uses
Leak investigations, post-storm assessments, pre-purchase or baseline condition documentation.
Monitor renewable assets and site conditions from above. Solar farm overviews, panel-level visual inspections, wind turbine exterior checks, and site access and drainage assessments.
Typical Uses
Spot issues early, verify construction, support ongoing O&M planning.
Gain a field-level view of crop conditions and agricultural infrastructure. Document crop vigor and stress patterns, inspect irrigation systems, and monitor field edges and problem areas.
Typical Uses
Focus scouting, verify treatment impact, document seasonal change.
Enhanced Capability
In addition to standard visual inspections, LiDAR can add value when you need a 3D understanding of structures and surrounding terrain, when elevation changes affect access, drainage, or stability, and when repeated inspections require consistent, measurable comparison over time.
What You Receive
We tailor the format and level of detail to your team — operations, maintenance, engineering, or environmental.
Our Process
You tell us what assets need inspecting, your main concerns, and any deadlines. We clarify whether you need overview conditions, specific components, 3D context, or a combination.
We define flight areas, access points, and operational constraints. We review safety requirements, site orientations, and communication protocols.
We mobilize and conduct safe, controlled flight operations around your assets. We coordinate closely with on-site representatives and control rooms when needed.
We organize imagery, video, and any LiDAR outputs, flag visible issues, and deliver digital files for your internal review and records.
Need recurring inspections? We establish a schedule so you build a consistent visual and spatial history of your assets over time.
Keep crews on the ground while we capture what's above, below, or out of reach.
Cover more ground in less time than manual inspection methods.
High-resolution visual records, organized and delivered in usable formats.
Part 107 certified pilot with experience working around active industrial operations.
Based in Craig, CO — familiar with the oil and gas, mining, and utility landscape of NW Colorado.
One-time inspections or recurring programs to match your maintenance cycle.