NIDC Signs Deals for Lending Drilling Rigs to Iranian Contractors

reporter 1222 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 06:34:31 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) signed deals to lend 16 drilling rigs to five domestic companies that are working on development projects of the country’s oilfields.

The NIDC, a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), is engaged in the exploration, development, and delineation drilling of oil and gas wells, Shana reported.

According to Reza Dehqan, the NIOC deputy director for development and engineering affairs, the deals were signed with Global Petrotech Kish Company, Petro Iran Development Company, Pasargad Energy Development Company, Qeshm Oil and Energy Industries, and Petrotenco Company.

The drilling rigs will be used in the development projects of Zilaei, Mansourabad, Siahmakan, Ahvaz 1, and 4, as well as Maroun 5 and 12 oilfields, Dehqan said.

The NIDC drilled and repaired 64 oil and gas wells in the first six months of the current Iranian year (March 20-September 21), announced the deputy head of NIDC for drilling operations on September 26.

“Of the completed wells, 21 were development wells, 42 exploration wells, and one was repaired,” Shana quoted Saeid Akbari as saying.

The official said that his company drilled a total of 36,547 meters of well during the first half of the current year.

The head of NIDC’s Technology and Engineering Department said in May that the company indigenized the technology for manufacturing 6,000 drilling equipment in collaboration with domestic manufacturers and engineers in the previous Iranian year.

According to Behnoud Mansournejad, before this achievement, the technology for manufacturing the mentioned equipment was in the possession of a handful of foreign companies.

Among the equipment, the parts related to the rotary blowout preventers (BOP) used in air drilling operations have been tested in operation and approved by the operational units for optimal performance.

Mansournejad said that the use of the domestically-made parts and equipment saved the country about $107 million in the previous year.

For the current year, a list of basic equipment needs of the country have been identified in collaboration with NIDC’s operational and support departments to be made by local companies and new technology-based firms for the first time, he added.

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Minister Hails Success to Extinguish Iran’s Oilfield Inferno

reporter 1222 — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 07:15:20 +0000

Iran’s oil minister praised the hard-working staff for putting out a huge fire that had been raging at an oilfield in the southwestern province of Khuzestan for two months, saying the big fire was brought under control by the deadline set earlier.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet session on Wednesday, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said the fire in Rag Sefid oilfield was extinguished within the initially-declared span of 60 days.

Paying tribute to the staff members killed or wounded during the laborious operation to put out the fire, the minister said the firefighters could extinguish the oil-fed blaze after several attacks from the air and the ground.

On Tuesday night, the oil workers could bring under control the deadly blaze at Rag Sefid. Officials had cited poor transport infrastructures and the region’s mountainous terrain as the causes of slow supply of water and other equipment to the disaster zone.

Rag Sefid oilfield, in operation for over fifty years, is estimated to hold 16.5 billion barrels of crude oil in place. The fire in Rag Sefid marked one of the most serious incidents in the history of Iran’s energy industry.

Another recent tragic incident in the energy industry took place in July 2016, when an inferno broke out at Bu Ali Sina Petrochemical Refinery Complex in Mahshahr and raged at a giant storage tank for more than two days.

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NIDC Signs Deals for Lending Drilling Rigs to Iranian Contractors

Minister Hails Success to Extinguish Iran’s Oilfield Inferno

Iran’s oil minister praised the hard-working staff for putting out a huge fire that had been raging at an oilfield in the southwestern province of Khuzestan for two months, saying the big fire was brought under control by the deadline set earlier.