With the help of mobile oil treaters, Karoun Oil and Gas Production Company has prevented 32,000 barrels of oil from being burnt during extraction phases over the past 10 months, the managing director said.
"The company has extracted close to 1.4 million barrels of oil, worth $40 million in the period, of which 32,000 barrels would have been wasted if it were not for the MOTs on well heads," Mohsen Dahanzadeh was quoted as saying by the National Iranian Oil Company news portal on Saturday.
Modern equipment like MOTs helped safeguard the ecosystem by curtailing the emission of 15,000 tons of carbon dioxide over the 10-month period.
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, also can be utilized for different oil wells with different oil properties.
As the name indicates, the device is mobile and can be moved to any oil well.
According to Dahanzadeh, KOGPC is in charge of seven exploitation units, 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.
Supplying 2 Main Refineries
"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," he said.
KOGPC, a subsidiary of the 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,
"Another compressor station is being installed that will help collect 350,000 cubic meters of flare gas every day."
Flaring is the burning of natural gas that cannot be processed or sold. Flaring of APG 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.
Dahanzadeh said KOGPC has indigenized 213 pieces of oil equipment in collaboration with domestic manufacturers and engineers since March of 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 slow circulation rate pressure systems.
