Karoun power plant. NISOC developed a smoke-free flare; a 940-tonne top
drive is installed on Platform 18F of the Forouzan oil field. This platform
has been designed and built in Iran.
Enhancing the gas recovery capacity and the sustainable production period in SP4
using perforation operations in the K reservoir layer, perforation of the K1 layer
(in 11 wells) and acid job (in 9 wells) were carried out. Platform 14B was loaded out
from the Iran Shipbuilding & Offshore Industries Complex Co (ISOICO) yard in
Bandar Abbas.
Summer, Oil Installations and Tankers Apart from the seizure of an Iranian
oil tanker in Gibraltar and the seize of Britain’s Stena Impero tanker by Iranian
navy forces, OPEC+ countries (OPEC and non-OPEC allies) agreed to extend their
previous agreement for a 1.2 mb/d cut from their output up to March 2020.
For the first time in Iran’s shipbuilding industry, ISOICO managed to overhaul an
Iranian very large crude carrier.
Installation of a 500-tonne structure of Platform FY-B in the Forouzan field,
repairing VGVC in the SGT turbine, composing for the first time in Iran by
NISOC, using internal coating technology in coiled tubing and casings for the first
time in the Masjed Soleiman oil field development project, overhaul of two oil
mobile transporter (MOT) and one mobile oil separator (MOS) units for the first time
by engineers at the Karoun Oil and Gas Production Company, designing defective
parts of a solar turbine by the Aghajari Oil and Gas Production Company engineers
were among developments at the start of this season. The third platform of SP14
was installed.
The Exploration Directorate of NIOC announced that it had started in partnership with an Iranian- European consortium gravimetric and magnetometric data gathering
in the Kopet Dag area in Khorasan Razavi Province. The Parsi field gas
gathering project received the Energy Globe Foundation award while NISOC
announced that the UPS system of the gas injection station of the Aghajari
Oil and Gas Production Company, as well as the subsurface valves of Well
No. 313 of the Masjed Soleiman field had been repaired domestically. As
far as environmental projects are concerned, the South Zagros Oil
and Gas Production Company brought the 44-kw Sarvestan and Saadatabad photovoltaic power
plant on-stream, while five troughs were prepared for wildlife living in the
Parsian area.
Meantime, more than 500 items of commodities required by the petroleum industry were built or repaired during the first four months of the calendar year. The West Oil and Gas Production
Company said that in addition to repairing the Nafthshahr desalination reboiler,
part of the Cheshmeh Khosh pipeline was renovated.
The company’s engineers have developed a system to test automatic safety valves. Once a ownhole pump is installed in Well No. 4 of the North Yaran field, over 1,000 b/d would be added to the field’s output. In South Pars, in addition to commencement of storage
at four propane and butane tanks for the refinery of SP19, the platform of
SP23 and the flare support of Platform 13A were loaded at SADRA yard. The
riser of oil pipeline in Platform R4 of the Reshadat field was replaced and
the solar turbines detection system in Salman field platform was renovated.
A new 100,000-tonne single-point mooring was installed in the area run by the Fajr Jam gas refining company in order to enhance the loading capacity of gas condensate. Well No. 30 of the
Aghajari field became operational and the Aghajari Oil and Gas Production Company
announced that 1,563 items used in processing equipment had been built. In
the last month of summer, as planned previously, the overhaul of many installations run by the
Iran Central Oil Fields Company (ICOFC) was over. The South Zagros Oil and Gas Production
Company started operating its fire and gas detection system.
In South Pars, the main power supply post of the onshore refinery of SP14 was
launched, while Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) signed an agreement
with Petropars for developing Belal gas field. At the Iran Oil Terminals Company
(IOTC), Iranian
engineers managed to overhaul and launch Haft-e Tir tugboat. A project for reinforcing the
berthing structure of Platform PLQ of the Belal field, reducing the weight
of the Norouz 1 oil platform in Bahregan, four reparation,
reconstruction and renovation projects in the Siri area were launched aimed at
production sustainability. The top drives of platforms 7 and 8 of the Hendijan
field, weighing 1,000 tonnes each, were loaded from the ISOICO factory in
Bandar Abbas. At the end of summer, major installations of Saudi oil giant Aramco
were attacked, which were the