Following the implementation of development plans last year (March 2022-2023), Karoun Oil and Gas Production Company increased its oil output by 340,000 barrels per day.
The company’s oil output, which stood at 500,000 barrels per day at the beginning of last year, reached 840,000 bpd at the end of the year, the Energy Today website reported.
The company has desalinated about 85,000 barrels of wastewater per day and injected more than 97% of it to injection wells last year.
The daily production of about 12.75 million cubic meters of gas, 25,000 barrels of gas condensate and about 25,000 cubic meters of drinking, raw and industrial water in the industrial water treatment plant are among other achievements of the KOGPC.
The company has also taken valuable measures in the field of environmental protection. It has reduced gas burning to about 5% despite the increase in oil output and prevented the sewage from being sent to ponds.
Preventing the burning of about 94,000 barrels of oil by using mobile oil treaters (MOT) is another measures taken in the field of environment.
With the help of mobile oil treaters, KOGPC prevented 94,000 barrels of oil from being burnt last year.
Mobile Oil Treaters
Modern equipment like MOTs help safeguard the ecosystem by curtailing the emission of carbon dioxide.
MOT is a system for eliminating acid, gas, water, salt, sand and silt from crude oil and injecting it into the pipeline during drilling, repairing, acidizing and testing oil wells.
This equipment, which includes pump station, separation, injection and desalting units, could also be utilized for oil wells with different oil properties.
As the name indicates, the device is mobile and can be moved to any oil well.
KOGPC is in charge of seven exploitation units and seven desalination units in Asmari and Bangestan reservoirs, plus 10 gas boosting pressure stations. It also handles three gas and liquefied petroleum gas plants, a gas sweetening refinery, a crude oil pump station and two MOTs.
Half of KOGPC output goes to Abadan and Tehran refineries, and the rest to Kharg Island Terminal for export. The company also provides Mahshahr and Bandar Imam Khomeini petrochemical plants with feedstock.
KOGPC, a subsidiary of NIOC, has set up a gas compressor station for collecting 300,000 cubic meters of flare gases of Bangestan reservoirs per day near Ahvaz in Khuzestan Province.
Flaring is the burning of natural gas that cannot be processed or sold. It is an important safety measure at oil and gas production sites, as it prevents industrial plant equipment from over-pressuring and exploding.
However, the burning of high levels of APG is a major source of air pollution.
KOGPC indigenized over 200 oil equipment in collaboration with domestic manufacturers and engineers last year.
The indigenized equipment include drilling mud pumps, blowout preventers, traction motors, draw-works, drilling fluid recycling systems, mission centrifugal pumps, top drives and drilling rig pressure systems.
