Two more wells in Danan Oilfield in Ilam Province have been drilled and with the successful completion of tests, they are now ready to start production, the manager of maintenance projects in Naftshahr, Sa’adatabad and Danan fields at the Iranian Central Oil Fields Company said.
“It was part of the project to drill 11 wells in the field in the west of the country,” Parviz Salehvand was also quoted as saying by the Oil Ministry’s news agency Shana.
The two wells are expected to produce 3,000 barrels of oil per day, he added.
Previously, two wells had become operational and the drilling of seven more wells in Danan Oilfield is also on the agenda.
Located along Iran’s border with Iraq, Danan was discovered in 2007 and started production in 2014. It is operated by the Iranian Central Oil Fields Company.
At present, 26,000 barrels per day of crude oil are being extracted from the field and delivered to the Dehloran refinery through pipeline. After being sweetened, it is pumped through a 52-kilometer pipeline to the Cheshmeh-Khosh desalination unit.
Established in 1999, ICOFC is one of the major subsidiaries of the National Iranian Oil Company. It is responsible for oil and gas production 76 reservoirs, comprising 45 gas fields and 31 oilfields.
The company is developing fields in Lorestan, Kurdestan, Kermanshah, Markazi, Qom, Ilam, East Azarbaijan, West Azarbaijan, Ardabil, Fars, Bushehr, Hormozgan and Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari provinces.
In related news, the managing director of ICOFC has announced that the company is implementing a major zero-flare project, based on which the company will recover 42,475 million cubic meters of flare gases per day by March 2026.
Mehdi Heidari added that his company is seriously following up flare gas recovery.
“ICOFC plans to add 100 million cubic meters per day to its gas production and 100,000 million barrels to its daily oil output,” he said.
“The company produced 70 billion cubic meters of gas, 20 million barrels of oil and 16 million barrels of gas condensate in the previous Iranian year [ended March 20, 2022].”
