Pelco's heavy-duty ruggedised security cameras are designed to meet the evolving demands of modern oil and gas operations. (Image source: Pelco)

Polina Mamont, technical evangelist for Pelco, provides a comprehensive overview of Pelco’s evolution under the stewardship of Motorola Solutions and how oil and gas operators in the Middle East can benefit from the brand’s new strategic direction

For over 65 years, Pelco has built a legacy of reliability and service, especially in environments where the deployment of trusted devices is essential. But the demands on oil and gas infrastructure have changed. Harsh environments, increasing cyber risk and stricter compliance pressures are reshaping how companies approach safety and security.

The old playbook of hitting ‘record’ and hoping for the best is no longer enough to keep pace with the evolving security challenges. Security teams need security technology that supports faster decision-making, remote diagnostics and real-time insights across sprawling, often hazardous facilities. That’s why Pelco has made a focused shift, building out our portfolio with heavy-duty ruggedised security cameras, designed to meet the evolving demands of modern oil and gas operations.

A legacy of innovation reinvented

Pelco’s renewed strategic direction centres on delivering high-performance cameras and intelligent edge devices that integrate easily with your existing ONVIF-conformant VMS, without requiring a complete system replacement. Since joining Motorola Solutions in 2020, Pelco has redesigned and re-engineered most of its camera lineup, introducing new capabilities through targeted acquisitions:

● Videotec – ruggedised cameras and housings built for hazardous and corrosive conditions
● IPVideo – smart sensors delivering visibility to privacy-sensitive areas
● Silent Sentinel – long-range visible and thermal imaging for perimeter and infrastructure protection
● Calipsa – cloud-based analytics to support AI-driven detection and false alarm filtering

This expanded portfolio reflects a broader shift toward intelligent, flexible security. By combining durable hardware with edge analytics and cloud integrations, Pelco devices can help improve visibility across critical zones, identify abnormal behaviours and support compliance with safety regulations.

The missing ingredient for a safer and more secure facility

The Middle East plays a critical role in the global energy supply, producing approximately 30% of the world's oil and around 17% of the world's natural gas. But the region’s environmental and geopolitical realities present unique security challenges. From extreme heat and corrosive sea air to long-range perimeter requirements and cyber-physical threats, operators are under pressure to secure infrastructure without interrupting operations.

The expanded Pelco portfolio range meets these challenges head-on.

Engineered for hazardous and corrosive environments

From desert facilities to offshore platforms, Middle East oil and gas sites require video security built to withstand extreme heat, corrosion and hazardous conditions. Pelco’s specialty camera lineup offers a wide range of configurations, including PTZ, thermal, bispectral PTZ, fixed, compact and IR PTZ, engineered for the region’s most demanding environments.

With models constructed from heavy-duty 316L stainless steel, these cameras are designed to resist the corrosive effects of coastal sea spray and operate reliably in the region's extreme temperatures. They comply with key international standards, such as ATEX and IECEx, ensuring they meet the stringent requirements of your sites. With high-resolution imaging, environmental hardening and advanced detection capabilities, they provide the situational awareness needed to help protect people, assets and operations in any conditions.

Long-range Silent Sentinel cameras help protect boundaries across large distances

For the unique challenge of securing offshore platforms, pipeline corridors and coastal terminals, Silent Sentinel camera systems provide critical long-range situational awareness. These ruggedised camera systems are engineered to detect and classify threats like vehicles, vessels and drones from kilometres away, providing your team with advanced warning to act proactively.

With modular camera systems like Jaegar and Aeron, available in a wide variety of thermal, optical and multispectral lens combinations, operators can observe wide areas day and night, even in fog or complete darkness. These systems integrate seamlessly with radar, range finders and other sensors to support long-range threat detection.

Smart Analytics provides proactive intelligence to protect people and assets

The true power of a modern video system lies in its ability to understand what it sees. Our cameras are equipped with Pelco Smart Analytics, transforming them from passive recorders into proactive detection devices. These AI-driven analytics can classify people and vehicles, and identify behaviours such as loitering near restricted areas, unauthorised entry or absence from zones that require constant human oversight, like control stations on offshore platforms or pump rooms in refineries.

This intelligence extends beyond security to help protect your operations and workforce. Thermal models with radiometric analytics can identify abnormal temperature spikes in critical equipment, like gas compressors or switchgear panels, sending an alert that allows for proactive maintenance before a failure leads to costly downtime. For an additional layer of intelligence, Elevate-enabled cameras streamline maintenance and unlock advanced analytics, such as PPE detection, helping workers stay compliant with safety gear requirements in hazardous zones.

Halo Smart Sensors for protection in privacy zones

In oil and gas environments, areas like restrooms, locker rooms and enclosed break areas still present potential safety and compliance risks. Halo Smart Sensor is an all-in-one device that ensures privacy by operating without any visual or audio recording, instead utilising a suite of advanced sensors to detect a wide range of risks in real-time.

Its air quality sensors can identify dangerous changes that might signal a chemical leak, such as rising VOC levels, or detect prohibited smoking and vaping in hazardous zones. The Halo sensor’s audio analytics can recognise acoustic signatures, such as aggression or a call for help, providing an immediate alert to potential security incidents. In an emergency, Halo’s built-in, colour-coded lights can provide way-finding illumination to help guide your workers to safety and comprehensive protection across every part of your facility.

Upgrade your security without disrupting operations

A complete overhaul of a security system in an active oil and gas facility is a monumental task. The risk of production delays and the logistical complexity of working in hazardous zones often make a full "rip-and-replace" project unrealistic, especially when many facilities rely on legacy operational technology.

This is why Pelco is committed to open platform technology. Our cameras are designed to integrate seamlessly with all leading ONVIF-conformant VMS platforms, including Genetec, Milestone and Avigilon Unity, allowing you to enhance your security capabilities without discarding your current infrastructure.

This approach provides a practical path to modernisation. You can begin upgrading your security posture today by adding intelligent Pelco cameras into your existing infrastructure, allowing you to introduce advanced analytics and enhance operational visibility without the massive cost and disruption of starting from scratch.

Coming soon: Live webinar

We’re hosting an exclusive online event for oil and gas leaders on 16 September at 2:00 pm GST. In the session, we’ll discuss three of the main challenges faced by oil and gas operators: safety, security and productivity, and how advanced video security technology can help to address them.

Interested?
Register for the webinar here.

DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging is a unique approach to seismic processing and imaging. (Image source: DUG Technology)

Supercharge legacy data with DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging by using the entire wavefield, including all free-surface multiples and converted waves, as high-octane signal.

DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging is a unique approach to seismic processing and imaging which turns the traditional paradigm on its head. It replaces not only traditional processing and imaging workflows, but also the subsequent inversion workflow for elastic rock properties.

The traditional processing workflow involves the testing and application of dozens of steps such as deghosting, designature, demultiple and regularisation, which are all designed to overcome the limitations of conventional imaging. These workflows are complex, subjective, and very time-consuming due to their serial nature and they rely on many assumptions and simplifications. All of these issues impact the output data quality. The resulting, primary-only data then undergoes a similarly complex model-building workflow to derive an estimate of the subsurface velocity, which is used for depth imaging. Post-migration processing is performed before the pre-stack reflectivity undergoes another workflow to derive rock properties that feed into quantitative interpretation, also relying on simplifications of the actual physics. As a result of these workflows, projects can take many months to years to complete.

Multiples are normally considered as problematic noise, however they illuminate the subsurface in complementary ways to primary reflections. When imaging with primaries and multiples the subsurface is sampled far more completely, and with a wider range of angles — constraining the inverted reflectivity, rock properties and attenuation.

Elastic MP-FWI Imaging accounts for both compressional and shear waves, handling variations in seismic wave dynamics as a function of incidence angle, including in the presence of high impedance contrasts and onshore near-surface geological complexity. Multiples and converted waves are now treated as valuable additional signal, increasing sampling, resolution and constraining the inverted parameters.

The figure above shows a comparison of the reflectivity derived with DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging using raw field data, versus a conventional LS-RTM workflow using extensively pre-processed input. This legacy dataset was acquired in 2006 on the Australian North West Shelf. This region contains rapidly changing shallow velocity variations due to localised channel features and carbonates. The MP-FWI imaging results demonstrate an increase in spatial resolution — the channel features, reservoir flat spot, and complex faulting are sharper and more clearly delineated.

A complete replacement for traditional processing and imaging workflows is no longer a stretch of the imagination. Visit dug.com to see more outstanding DUG Elastic MP-FWI Imaging results.

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The valve is being piloted in both onshore and offshore environments. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

Flow control specialist Oxford Flow has started commercial trials of its ES stemless control valve with ADNOC

The ES valve is proven through third-party testing to eliminate fugitive emissions. With no stem or external actuator, its compact design removes common failure points, reduces maintenance requirements and enables a significantly smaller footprint. This makes it simpler to install and service, more reliable in extreme environments, and well suited to high-performance applications across upstream and downstream operations - supporting operators to cut emissions without compromising on efficiency or durability.

 The ES valves are currently being piloted both onshore and offshore at key production fields Upper Zakum and Das Island, the aim being to demonstrate the valve’s ability to eliminate fugitive emissions while supporting ADNOC’s ambitious decarbonisation targets.

This pilot marks a significant step in Oxford Flow’s expansion in the Middle East and reinforces the company’s aim to partner with operators committed to real-world deployment of decarbonisation technologies. Working alongside ADNOC in live field conditions provides a powerful opportunity to demonstrate the commercial and environmental benefits of next-generation valve technology at scale.

Neil Poxon, CEO at Oxford Flow, said, “Leaking valves are a major, often overlooked, source of emissions. By replacing them, operators can make fast, material progress in decarbonising both onshore and offshore systems. It’s a significant step forward to now see ADNOC piloting the ES valve in live operations.”

With the growing focus on reducing emissions, Oxford Flow’s valve technology is already in use in a number of markets including North America. 

technology enables more efficient and reliablThe technology enables the acquisition of formation evaluation measurements in any well condition. (Image source: SLB)

SLB has introduced the OnWave autonomous logging platform, which has already been deployed successfully in the Middle East and could potentially revolutionise formation evaluation

The first-of-its-kind technology enables more efficient and reliable acquisition of formation evaluation measurements in any well condition — even in historically challenging tight gas and unconventional reservoirs — autonomously acquiring multiple, high-fidelity measurements downhole, without the need of a wireline unit, and wireline cable. Its cable-free design takes less than half the time to deploy compared with conventional wireline platforms, while enabling drill pipe rotation and mud circulation during logging operations, to enhance well safety and minimise stuck pipe events.

The OnWave platform executes tasks downhole that would typically be performed manually by engineers at surface, including borehole measurement acquisition and data quality checks. It also verifies the tool’s position and functionality downhole through constant communication with surface, assuring confidence in the data acquisition quality and avoiding remedial logging runs.

The acquired data is streamed to the SLB collaborative cloud, where it undergoes intelligent processing and interpretation. This data can be viewed on demand, for real-time insights and informed decision making.

OnWave has been deployed successfully across different regions, including in the USA and Middle East, demonstrating significant efficiency gains in complex well trajectories. In South Texas, the platform reduced the landing time to total depth of the well from hours to just 27 minutes — a 70% reduction compared with conventional deployment techniques. Processing of the measurements at surface provided high‑quality integrated petrophysics and acoustic insights, enabling the E&P operator to improve the stimulation and completion designs and derisk asset field development.

“The OnWave platform marks the beginning of a new era in formation evaluation,” said Frederik Majkut, president of Reservoir Performance, SLB. “By streamlining how we gather high-fidelity measurements downhole, we are opening up key opportunities for our customers to integrate data-driven decision making into their workflows across the well life cycle — from exploration through to production and recovery.”