Iran’s Oil, Gas Industries Progressing Steadily

Tehran is considerably advancing its development policies in the oil and gas industries, as the National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) announced that it has successfully completed drilling operations of 88 oil and gas wells over the first 9 months of the current local calendar year (March 21-December 22).

According to NIDC Deputy Director for Drilling Operations Mohammad Ale-Khamis, the wells included an exploration well as well as 26 development wells, 7 appraisal wells and 54 workover projects.

Ale-Khamis said during the period, 119,438 meters were drilled by NIDC rigs in onshore and offshore projects.

Furthermore, he said, 64 wells were ordered by the National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC) and 12 others were drilled in the offshore fields operated by the Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC).

Moreover, 2 wells were drilled in the fields operated by the Central Oil Fields Company, 3 were ordered by the Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC), and 6 others were spudded as projects. Finally, a well was drilled in the areas operated by the exploration department of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).

NIDC enjoy 72 offshore and onshore drilling rigs and since March, has operated 26 of them for drilling wells, 3 rigs for drilling appraisal wells, 4 rigs for exploration projects, and 25 other rigs for workover projects, Ale-Khamis said.

Late in July, Ale-Khamis had announced that the NIDC had successfully spudded 41 oil and gas wells since March.

As he said, 29 of the wells were drilled in the fields operated by the National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC), while 2 others were drilled in central fields, 3 in offshore fields, 3 were ordered by the Petroleum Engineering and Development Company (PEDEC) and 4 others were ordered by other companies in the country.

Totally, NIDC rigs drilled 50,929 meters of wells during the 4 months, he added, saying that 13 drilling rigs were currently operating in various offshore or onshore fields.