This industry was one of the first to incorporate and take advantage of the benefits of remote sensing. Initially, this technology was applied to the prospection and exploration, and then to production operations. HytecAltoAmericas offers images with abundant information about extensive areas at a relatively low cost, in order to better define both the potential as well as the sensitivity of the production fields, thus reducing the general risks of the exploitation activities. Therefore, this technology is implemented also in the environmental monitoring of oil and gas fields.

During prospection and exploration operations, these data are useful to map the outcrop lithology, to identify structural traps and to learn about land subsidence, as well as the detection of oil-seeps in the continental shelf or coastline.