Iran-Made Rigs, Compressors Used in Joint Oil, Gas Fields

While Iran has more than 28 joint oil and gas fields with neighboring countries, the Ministry of Oil has announced that by the end of 1404, more than 65% of the equipment used in the development projects of these fields will be provided by domestic and knowledge-based companies.

According to an official report by the National Iranian Oil Company, last year, about 32 onshore rigs and four offshore rigs were active in the development operations of seven joint fields, including South and North Azadegan, Yadavaran, Yaran, Arvand, Forouzan, and Salman. Of these, 9 onshore rigs and one offshore rig were completely domestically built.

The oil ministry also announced that the capacity to manufacture 3,000 horsepower drilling rigs in the country has reached over four units per year, and now the National Iranian Drilling Company and three knowledge-based complexes in Ahvaz and Arak enjoy the capacity to produce, install, and fully operate these rigs.

Also, in the field of gas facilities, the Iranian knowledge-based companies have been able to bring the first centrifugal gas compressor with a capacity of 25 megawatts and a working pressure of 250 bars to the industrial stage.

In a relevant development in 2024, Iranian experts at a knowledge-based company had made it possible to increase productivity in low-yield and l0w-efficiency oil wells in the country by designing and producing strategic equipment in the field of drilling.

Whipstock drilling is a directional drilling technique that is used to change the direction of an existing wellbore. The experts at an Iranian knowledge-based company has developed the Whipstock drilling to increase productivity in low-yield and low-efficiency wells in the country.

Behnam Khodayar, the managing director of the knowledge-based company pointed to the construction of the whipstock machine for use in the drilling industry, specifically in the oil field and said, “Whipstock is a strategic tool in the drilling industry, and we have taken steps to produce a whipstock with new technology and according to domestic needs using local know-how and after conducting serious research and development work.”

The director of the company said that the most important advantage of their product is the use of completely domestic know-how, adding, “Other companies’ products manufactured in Iran are fully copied from foreign-made equivalents and produced through reverse engineering method. Such products cannot be exported. But our product is the only domestically-produced machine that is based on an Iranian design and has export potential and it has already been commercialized.”

“The products of this knowledge-based company are made in hydraulic and mechanical models in different sizes and with an exclusive design, in the meantime, the operational power of these products is in line with the equivalents machines made in the western countries,” he added.

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