The chief of
Iran's Research Institute of
Petroleum Industry said the first artificial oil well in the Middle East was constructed in Iran using the
smart reservoirs technology and nanosensors.
According to the
research reporter of ISNA, Dr Kamali, the chief of Iran's Research
Institute of Petroleum Industry said: The Institute has a brilliant background
in studies on the oil reservoirs during its 48 years
experience.
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ISNA
He added: The
institute has been a pioneer in design of expert software in this regard and its
software has now entered the production. In drilling technology, the institute
has done better than many big foreign companies and based on the nano technology
has designed the cement mixture with PCF 62 and tested it in Marun, and got
positive results. This technology will be implemented in Kupal and Shadegan as
well.
Dr Kamali added:
Regarding the smart reservoirs, we have been studying for three years and for
the first time the artificial oil well was built in Iran and we
hope, by using the nanosensors, to be able to manage and monitor these types of
reservoirs in the near future.
He insisted: Our
main goal is to increase the production by increasing the rate of retrieval of
the oil reservoirs. Considering that Iran’s oil reservoirs is estimated to be
500 billion barrels, if we could increase the retrieval rate by one percent, we
can produce a value added of 300 billion Dollars (based on 60 Dollars per
barrels), which is an important step in our
economy.
According to ISNA,
Sassan Sadraii, the deputy of the institution said: Many university teachers and
academics have operational ideas which cannot be tested and implemented. We are
trying to setup a mechanism to collect their ideas and carry out pilot tests on
them and if successful lead them to the
market.
He added: In order
to take full advantage of the potential capacities we are currently studying the
possibility of creating a science and technology park for the oil
ministry.
Sadraii described
the complementary process of GTL, carried out in the institute and said the
technical and economical feasibility studies for the GTL project shows that it
can be done by 70 to 80 percent.
Note: Original article
published in Persian by ISNA.
Translated
for Payvand.com by BMarz translators: http://www.BMarz.com
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