Iranian Company Uses Plasma Technology to Make Shock Wave Device in Liquid Environment

TEHRAN (ANA)- The Iranian scientists at the Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology succeeded in designing and constructing a pulsed power plasma device capable of producing and propagating shock waves in a liquid environment which increases the efficiency of oil well extraction and water resource restoration.

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Given the widespread use of pulse plasma technology by the countries which have oil resources, including the Persian Gulf littoral states, and the issue of extraction from shared oil fields, acquiring this know-how and technology has become doubly important for Iran. The development of this technology can significantly increase the production and exploitation capacity of the country's oil fields.

Since 2007, pulse plasma technology has been successfully used in the field of increasing oil recovery. In addition to the oil and gas industry, this technology can also be used in the field of water well restoration. The target market for this technology includes large oil and gas industries, joint resource development projects, and projects related to the rehabilitation and rehabilitation of water wells.

This achievement of the Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute is not only a scientific breakthrough in the field of plasma technology, but can also play an important role in improving the country's energy security and increasing productivity in strategic sectors in the near future.

In a relevant development in 2024, an Iranian knowledge-based company had also succeeded in production of a special device which measures the thickening time of cement slurries under simulated downhole pressure and temperature conditions of the oil wells.

“This device specifically measures and informs the thickening time of cement in the oil well,” Amin Karimi, the managing-director of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.

“The formulation of oil well cement is different from the cement used in construction. The most important parameter of the oil well cement is the calculation of its thickening time,” he added.

Noting that the measuring device is widely used in oil well drilling operations, Karimi said, “In the last stage of oil well drilling, the thickened cement is injected into the wall and around the well for more strength.”

“Before starting the drilling operation, the primary cement that is going to be injected into the well is measured by the potentiometer of this device, and the precise information of oil well cement measurement is transferred to the user through the software that is connected to the torque of the electronic device,” he added.

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