Drilling 10 wells in South Azadegan Oilfield in Khuzestan Province will start soon, deputy director of the National Iranian Drilling Company said.
“NIDC supplies drilling rigs, technical and physical assets and engineering services in the oilfields,” the Oil Ministry news website Shana reported Hamidreza Khoshayand as saying.
Output from the field has increased from 30,000 barrels per day to 150,000 bpd over the past two years.
The wells are one of the projects carried out by the NIDC in West Karoun zone, an oil-rich region in Khuzestan that includes several large oilfields, including Yaran and Yadavaran other than Azadegan -- all divided into northern and southern ventures. Petroleum Engineering and Development Company is the operator in the region.
NIDC is involved in 70% of onshore drilling and has 72 drilling rigs, 69 of which are used in oilfields owned jointly with neighbors, namely the Azar and South Pars fields.
“Seven wells were drilled in Azar Oilfield in Ilam Province last month. Drilling of 22 wells are underway in Phase 14 of South Pars field in the Persian Gulf and the project is near completion,” Khoshayand said.
The company’s other activities include drilling wells in Gachsaran Oilfield in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province and five wells in Naftshahr Oilfield in Kermanshah Province.
NIDC has indigenized 5,000 drilling parts in collaboration with domestic companies over the past two decades, accounting for almost 80% of the needs of the key oil and gas sector.
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 slow circulation pressure systems.
A leading player in the oil and gas drilling industry in the Middle East, NIDC is working for a footprint in neighboring states, namely Iraq, Oman and Qatar.
It contracts offshore and onshore drilling operations and provides more than 90% of drilling services to domestic oil companies.
