TEHRAN – The Iranian National Drilling Company (NIDC) has dug and completed the digging operation of 62 oil and gas wells in the first ten months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2021-January 20, 2022 ), said a company official.
According to Masoud Afshar, NIDC Deputy Director for Drilling Operations, the wells drilled included four development wells, four exploration wells and 54 workover wells.
The official said that 46 of the mentioned wells were drilled in the operational area of the National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC), nine wells were drilled in the fields under the supervision of the Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC), three in the fields under the action of Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC), one in the field under the supervision of the Iranian Central Oil Fields Company (ICOFC), and two in the operational area of the drilling management department of the National Iranian Oil company (NIOC).
Since the beginning of this year, the well drilling area has reached 65,493 meters, he said, adding that 14 drilling rigs are being relocated to operational positions.
NIDC has 70 light, heavy and super heavy drilling rigs, including 67 onshore drilling rigs and three offshore rigs.
The company managed to carry out 10,182 meters of horizontal and directional drilling in 43 oil and gas wells across the country in the previous Iranian calendar year (ending March 20, 2021), according to the head of the Department of Oil and Gas. NIDC Special Operations, Ali Daqayeqi.
Some 654 meters of core mining drilling was also carried out during the mentioned period, which was a huge achievement in assessing the status of the country’s oil and gas reserves.
In November 2021, an NIDC official announced that the company had implemented 2,559 special and technical operations for claimant companies, which are subsidiaries of NIDC, and the private sector in the first seven months of the calendar year. ongoing Iranian (March 21 – October 22, 2021).
Mehran Makvandi, NIDC’s deputy general manager for technical and engineering affairs, said that among the offered services mentioned, 2,042 operations were in the area of technical service management and 517 operations were special services.
In July 2021, NIDC’s Director of Renovation and Upgrade, Shahram Shamipour, announced that the company had allocated 5.2 trillion rials (approximately $18 million) for the renovation and upgrade of its drilling rigs and equipment in the operational, technical, specialist and logistics areas of the company. departments.
According to him, the renovation and upgrading operations are aimed at improving the performance of these platforms which are active in the development projects of the country’s oil and gas fields.
Shamipour noted that equipment undergoing refurbishment operations includes fluid pumps, pulling machines, mapping tools, pumps for cementing and souring trucks, tow trucks, cranes, piping machinery, generators, hydrogen sulfide gas processing systems, acid lined storage tanks, and cement transportation bunkers.
Considering the new strategies of the National Iranian Oil Company to strengthen the presence of national companies in the development of the country’s oil fields, NIDC, as a major subsidiary of the company, has supported these companies by lending them drilling platforms. and other necessary equipment.
After the reimposition by the United States of sanctions against Iran, the indigenization of know-how for the manufacture of parts and equipment applied in different industrial sectors is one of the main strategies that the Islamic Republic has strongly followed. to achieve self-sufficiency and cancel the sanctions.
The oil, gas and petrochemical industries are performing exceptionally well in this regard, with the indigenization of the knowledge needed to manufacture many parts and equipment that were previously imported.
Among the various sectors of the industries mentioned, drilling could be mentioned as a striking example in this regard.
MOM
