Vantor has developed an innovative site monitoring solution that leverages the company’s industry-leading satellite imagery and spatial insights to provide energy companies with an efficient way to protect their assets and optimize operations.

By combining automated tasking and advanced analytics, Vantor can empower energy companies to monitor their onshore and offshore assets for situational awareness, operational updates and environmental impacts.

Energy companies often operate in remote locations that make it difficult and costly to regularly monitor infrastructure and assets. Vantor's spatial intelligence helps energy companies maintain a current view of activities around the globe, without the expense and risk of sending teams on location until necessary.

Situational awareness from space

Vantor owns and operates a constellation of 10 high-resolution, electro-optical satellites that collect the most accurate 30 cm-class resolution imagery in the industry. These satellites collect imagery around the globe, unhindered by local or regional security concerns, enabling energy companies to monitor facilities and infrastructure—whether on land or on the high seas.

This high-definition WorldView-3 image shows an oil refinery on the edge of Buqayq, Saudi Arabia, on March 31, 2025. It’s an example of how Vantor's satellites can be regularly tasked to collect high-resolution imagery to monitor operations, ensure safety compliance, inspect infrastructure integrity, and determine environmental impact. Regular analysis ensures early detection of risks, leaks and inefficiencies, helping to prevent accidents and optimize facility performance.

Vantor detected a dark tanker (center) in the above WorldView Legion image from March 18, 2025. This ship is navigating through Onne Port on the Bonny River in Nigeria. Vantor's advanced machine learning capabilities deliver critical information like vessel detections and classifications in near real-time. The screenshot above also shows dredging ships on the left that are broadcasting an automatic identification system [AIS] signal and a tugboat on the right which is not broadcasting an AIS signal. These detections can be part of a proactive security monitoring setup, ensuring early warning of unauthorized vessels and potential incursions that might be putting high-value offshore assets at risk.

Tracking operations across wide areas

Energy companies can operate across large regions and for a majority of the time, they experience operations happening as expected and their monitoring efforts only need to verify that fact.

But in some instances, they need to be alerted to unusual activities occurring and plan a response. Vantor satellite imagery can provide the high-resolution, optical view of these remote locations, but we also partner with Umbra, operator of high-resolution SAR satellites that can see details of what’s happening on the ground through clouds and in the darkness, and Satellogic, operator of medium-resolution, high-revisit, electro-optical satellites.

The combination of these technologies enables the ability to monitor areas of interest more frequently, creating a seamless collection, delivery and analysis workflow for users.

Vantor imagery can cover many square kilometers in a single image, enabling energy companies to get a concurrent view of operations happening across a region. In this example, Vantor's WorldView-2 satellite imaged the Permian Basin in Texas on February 4, 2025, putting eyes on many well pads while offering the resolution to zoom into each well pad to see the status of operations in detail. Vantor also ran an objection detection model on the image to identify cars (blue boxes) at the well pad to monitor change in activity over time. Using imagery and insights together enables an operator to know exactly which well pads need to be visited by on-site crews for reasons like maintenance, saving time and resources.

When operations are impacted, Vantor's imagery can help energy and utility companies plan their response before they head into the field. The green boxes in this example call out where intact transmission lines are located before (February 14, 2020) and after (October 7, 2024) Hurricane Helene caused significant flooding in the Biltmore Village, North Carolina, U.S. These insights help the operator select the types and quantities of materials needed and the team members with the necessary skills to respond in emergency situations.

Observing and mitigating environmental impacts at scale

Energy companies spend a significant amount of time, resources and effort to minimize the negative impacts of their activities on Earth. By leveraging Vantor satellite imagery, they can optimize their on-the-ground, maintenance efforts and organize their responses when mitigation efforts are necessary.

Monitoring onshore and offshore assets for better decision-making

Maxar can offer energy companies frequent and global imaging opportunities, as well as derived geospatial insights, to monitor their assets, stay ahead of risks and optimize their operations. This enables businesses to make more informed decisions about security situations, operations and the environment, ultimately saving time and resources.

Making monitoring activities more efficient

See how Maxar can help energy companies increase the impact of situational, operational and environmental monitoring with geospatial insights.