NIOC 1398 ReviewIran’s
Well D-6 in the zone run
by the Iran Offshore
Oil Company (IOOC)
and Well 140 in
the Rag Sefid field
became operational. The salty and sweet
oil pumping system in Aghajari No. 2
production unit is upgraded.
The engineers in the Tang Bijar operating
zone managed to launch a steam trace
system. Minister of Petroleum Bijan
Zangeneh visited Moscow to discuss
the fragile conditions of supply and
demand in the oil market with his Russian
counterpart. One week after the visit,
Thamir Abbas Al Ghadhban Deputy Prime
Minister for Energy Affairs and Iraq’s
minister of oil travelled to Iran and visited
EIED, a subsidiary of the Oil Industries
Engineering and Construction Company
(OIEC). During the visit, Iran and Iraq
were said to have reached agreement
on developing the Naftshhahr and
Khorramshahr fields, jointly owned by the
two countries. National Iranian South Oil
Company (NISOC) announced that for the
first time a rotor of Clark gas compressor
operated by this company had been
repaired by the company’s engineers.
Furthermore, a Rolls-Royce turbine and
its compressors would be overhauled and
come online after years of non-operation
at the Aghajari gas and liquefied gas plant.
Operations to build a tower to separate
propane from sweetened gas – as one of
major equipment in the Kharg LNG project
– ended in Ahvaz. Offshore cable-laying
operations in the wellhead platforms 7
and 8 of Bahregansar platform (electric
cable and fire optics) ended in less than
two months. One of oil tankers operated
by National Iranian Tanker Company
(NITC) was stopped in the Red Sea after
water penetrated into its engine chamber.
However, the oil tanker was put in stable
conditions and all 26 crewmembers
were announced to be in full health. US
sanctions waivers to the eight major
buyers of Iran’s crude oil came to an end.
At the same time, Minister Zangeneh met
with Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo the
visiting OPEC Secretary General on the
sidelines of the Tehran Oil Show.
During the exhibition, NISOC signed
agreements with domestic consulting
companies to conduct studies on six
reservoirs. Furthermore, five technological
achievements of the Research Institute of
Petroleum Industry (RIPI) were unveiled.
Relying on its own knowhow and
expertise, RIPI is operating as the most
specialized technological body involved
in the petroleum industry. The overhaul
of gas production installations at the
Khangiran field, as well as the installations
in the Nar, Kangan, Aghar and Dalan
areas started. Meantime, 14 exploration
blocks and their financing model were
introduced to Iranian E&P companies.
Operations for the safety of main and
auxiliary oil and gas pipelines in Maroun
were over and the protection and fire
alarm system on the Belal platform wells
were installed and launched while nothing
was outsourced.
The annual overhaul of the two platforms
of Phases 4 and 5 of the South Pars gas
field, as well as the platforms of SP10
and SP16 were successfully ended in the
mechanical, electrical, instrumentation,
inspection, health, safety and environment
sectors.
Explosions were reported on oil tankers
in Fujaira Port in the United Arab
Emirates, while Yemeni drones struck two
oil pumping stations in Saudi Arabia.
In the South Zagros area, two oil
development wells came online in
the Sarvestan and Sadatabad areas. A
homegrown riser was installed in the
Kharg waters to serve the drilling industry
for the first time.
Minister Zangeneh issues a directive,
setting priorities for the four subsidiaries
of Petroleum Ministry – National Iranian
Oil Company (NIOC), National Iranian Gas
Company (NIGC), National Petrochemical
Company (NPC) and National Iranian
Oil Refining and Distribution Company
(NIORDC) – as well as the Office of Deputy
Minister for Engineering, Research
and Technology. The priorities include
completing the production capacity
and startup of SP13, SP14 and SP22-
24, enhancing crude oil production
capacity in West Karoun’s joint oil fields,
building the Goureh-Jask pipeline and
a crude oil export terminal in Jask Port.
The Khangiran gas gathering center
as the largest gas gathering center in
Iran came online in Sarakhs, while two
projects became operational in the West