Iran Joins Countries Producing Drilling Machinery

“The main idea was designing and production of drilling machines in various fields, including geotechnical area (soil and foundation), mine exploration, water well drilling and foundation improvement, and we made research and development in this field in the last three years and at present, we are in the production stage and then we will proceed to commercialization,” Massoud Mehdizadeh, the managing-director of the company, told ANA.

He added that the products of his company have not been designed and produced in Iran so far, noting that what was produced were the machinery already developed by the Europeans in the 1980s.

“Seven world states are able to produce such drilling machines and we have also been capable of developing, making research and producing a number of them in the past few years,” Mehdizadeh said.

In a relevant development, Iranian knowledge-based company, Kani Sanat Shahvar, also succeeded in designing a hydraulic drilling rig capable of operating at 1,500 meters depth.

Saheb Ali Manafi, the vice-chancellor of the Islamic Azad University, Shahroud branch, told ANA that the company was established in 2012 with the goal of designing and building drilling machinery.

The company is active in the two fields of industrial and service sectors, he added.

Manafi went on to say that the company is also active in designing and modeling the first fully hydraulic drilling rig capable of operating at a depth of 1,500 meters, building the first fully hydraulic drilling rig capable of operating at a depth of 600 meters, and building a vertical drilling rig.

Patenting the drilling rigs, producing all downhole components, designing and manufacturing kinds of industrial and mining machinery, and offering technical services are among the fields of activity of the company.

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