Iranian Company Uses Nanotechnology to Produce Packers for Oil Industry
“In this company, we succeeded in designing and manufacturing inflatable packers, swell packers and rubber packing by using nanotechnology,” said Neda Ameri, the chairman of the board of directors of the knowledge-based company.
She described expandable packers as one of the company's products which are used for drilling oil wells, and said, “The expandable packer tool is driven into the well by connecting to a mobile core tube. This type of packers can pass through areas with a small and restrictive diameter, and when it reaches the desired depth, it expands to 3 times the initial diameter and performs the sealing work.”
Noting that after the operation, the expanding core returns to its original state and exits the well, Ameri said, “The expandable packer is used for complex and expensive operations and reduces the operation time from about a month to 24 hours which is highly economical.”
In a relevant development in January, Iranian experts at another knowledge-based company had also succeeded in manufacturing a hydraulic drilling machine that enjoys the capability to take samples up to a depth of 1,000 meters of the earth.
“We have different products, including hydraulic drilling machine which is used in mines. In the activities related to mining, the mining work begins when discoveries are made and the depth of the earth and the type of minerals in the earth are determined,” said Morteza Sediqian Kashi, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
“Therefore, to meet this need in Iran, we built a machine which takes samples from inside the earth, and this can be carried out up to a depth of a 1,000 meters,” he added.
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