There Will Be Drone: Using UAVs to Find Oil

We've seen drones used to safely navigate oil thanks through thick ice flows, so it's not all too surprising to hear that small, relatively affordable unmanned systems are now being used to sniff out oil deposits. This sort of thing was bound to happen sooner rather than later. 

A team of researchers with Norway's Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research, a collaboration between the University of Bergen and Uni Research, is on it: 

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/there-will-be-drone-using-uavs-to-find-oil