The first mobile oil treater of the National Iranian Drilling Company was unveiled on the first day of the 12th Ahvaz Specialized Exhibition of Oil and Petroleum Industry Equipment on Sunday in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province.
The unit can be installed on four semi-trailer trucks and moved to oil wells in the shortest possible time, the Oil Ministry’s news agency Shana reported.
MOT is a mobile device utilized in oil wells. It is used for eliminating acid, gas, water, salt, sand and silt from crude oil and pumping it to the pipeline during the drilling, repairing, acidizing and testing oil wells, instead of burning it due to its initial undesirable composition.
Crude oil is a mixture of different kinds of organic compounds, many of which are highly toxic and carcinogenic. During the drilling, repairing, acidizing and testing of oil wells, usually a large amount of oil is accumulated in a pit in the ground and burned. This has several economic and environmental impacts, including air and soil pollution.
Using MOT at oil production fields helps mitigate environmental pollution and ensures the continuity of crude oil production.
Indigenizing Equipment
National Iranian Drilling Company has produced 7,100 parts and equipment used in the drilling industry in the last two decades in collaboration with scientific research centers and domestic manufacturers, managing director of NIDC said on the sideline of Ahvaz Oil Show.
“Acquiring the technical know-how for indigenizing parts and equipment of oil and drilling industries continues until we achieve complete self-sufficiency in the field,” Hamidreza Golpayegani was also quoted as saying by Shana.
The indigenized equipment, accounting for almost 80% of the industry's needs, include drilling mud pumps, blowout preventers, traction motors, draw-works, drilling fluid recycling systems, mission centrifugal pumps, top drives and drilling rig pressure systems.
“The parts and equipment are manufactured based on standards so that they can compete with the foreign counterparts and be exported to international markets,” Golpayegani said.
“We want to enter foreign markets as part of the company's overseas plan. We hope to provide technical services to other countries [especially neighbors], or set up drilling rigs for drilling wells overseas.”
NIDC has 72 drilling rigs now and holds a 70% share in the domestic drilling market. The company has drilled and repaired 4,806 onshore and offshore oil and gas wells (equivalent to 10 million meters) over the last 40 years.
Founded in 1979, NIDC is conducting drilling operations for the National Iranian South Oil Company, Petroleum Engineering and Development Company, Iranian Offshore Oil Company and Iranian Central Oil Fields Company.
Besides drilling, it provides 30% of technical services to the oil industry, namely well logging, cementing and acidizing, drill stem test, well testing, training, development and general services.
NIDC has undertaken drilling work in Yaran, Yadavaran and Darkhoein oilfields in Khuzestan, and the Azar oilfield in Ilam Province. It plans to help boost the production at 28 oil and gas reservoirs, including Balaroud, Bangestan Lali, Ramin, Sepehr, Siahamkan, Naftshahr, Gachsaran, Ahvaz and Maroun.
Ahvaz Oil Show
The 12th Ahvaz Oil Show will continue until Feb. 9 at the Ahvaz International Fair Campus.
The exhibition seeks to introduce Iran’s capabilities in the fields of oil, gas and petrochemicals, drilling, machinery and equipment for the oil sector and related industries. Some 210 local firms are participating in the exhibition.
The last edition of the exhibition was held three years ago in December 2019. It was not held in 2020 and 2021 due to the outbreak of the coronavirus.
As the country is in a better condition following the vaccination of a majority of Iranians, the southern oil province is now hosting the 12th edition of the exhibit with the permission of the Oil Ministry.
Following the reimposition of US sanctions in 2018 and problems caused by high volatility and rising exchange rates in the country’s currency market, Iran has faced problems regarding the supply of equipment in various industrial sectors, so the government has devised new strategies to capitalize on domestic production.
The exhibition is seen as a great opportunity for introducing the latest investment opportunities in oil and drilling projects, especially to the private sector.
