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Features such as the communication scheme, energy awareness, and task distribution amongst others are the key component that characterizes the Flying Ad-hoc Network (FANET). The operational efficiency in FANET surveying a specific region is affected by the nature of the UAVs' node placement, routing protocol, energy-aware task distribution, and node interaction amongst others. In this paper, Drone 1 (D₁), Master Drone (D_M), and Drone 2 (D₂) were used to survey a pipeline of length 12.2 m. This paper aims at minimising energy use by drones during surveillance using energy-aware node exchange technique, task interaction and distribution scheme for each UAV. Due to fast energy depletion of D_M due to packets aggregation, its election is based on the UAV with the highest energy before take-off. For two different simulations, 14,697.0 J and 14,836.6 J were obtained for D_M. To avoid system failure due to …