Monday, June 08, 2009

During the inauguration ceremony of the biggest gas injection project in the world, gas injection into the Aghajari oil reserves, the Iranian Oil Minister announced that with injection of gas into the Aghajari gas reserves, the extractable amount of oil from this reserve will increase to between 2-5 billion barrels. 
Gholam-Hossein Nozari continued: "This is one of the biggest gas injection into oil reserve projects and has been assigned as priority by the respected IRI Supreme Leader and is under implementation.
He further stated gas injection is one of the best methods of increasing extraction from the 10 reserves within the country. The execution of phases 6, 7 and 8 of the giant South Pars gas fields, installation of 510 km. of pipeline, land surface facilities and digging of 21 wells costing over 2,700,000 bn rials are other aspects of the project.
This project aims to inject one bn cubic feet of gas every day and in the next month the Aghajari reserve will reach two bn cf per day. The present production rate of the project is 200,000 barrels per day which will hopefully reach 300,000 b/d in the future, but without execution of this all important projects the production would have remained at 50,000 barrels per day.
The Minister of Oil concluded that the gas injection into the reserve is paving the way for use of future generations and added that the gas injected into the field as well as the oil extracted can be reused in the sweetening process, network boosting and re-injection into the consumption sector of the country.

CHAGALESH, KEYSON and HIRBODAN work in this project as a joint partnership.

The National Iranian Oil Products Refining and Distrubution Company (NIOPRDC) contracted recently with Chagalesh Consulting Engineers for training fresh graduates of various engineering disciplines. Through a fast track program consisting of applied engineering courses, mentoring and on the job training, new graduates of engineering are to be empowered with hands-on engineering of the oil, gas and petrochemical industries.
Further objectives of this contract can be summarized as follows :
 Promote employability of new graduates who are interested in working for oil, gas and petrochemical industries.
Mitigate the shortage of young skilled engineers in our petroleum industry market.
Help development of engineering human resources for Iran oil industry.
The program was initially planned for training 30 new graduates in the fields of electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering started on December 6th, 2008 at Chagalesh Consulting Engineers after announcement of messages from His Excellency Deputy Minister of oil industry and Managing Director of NIOPRDC on the occasion of this program initiation.
 

NISOC & Environment   Sunday, November 30, 2008

Mobile Oil Treating (M.O.T.)

These facilities have been manufactured and utilized with the objective of preventing environmental pollution, avoiding waste of the national assets, as well as enhancing the country's economic potentials. Our present information indicate that in order to clean the oil wells in different zones of oil fields, the crude oil of more than one hundred oil wells are annually directed to the burning pits. The amount of oil burned in the pits equals to 1,250,000 barrels per year. Compulsory burning of the surplus oil in the pits are done in order to clean the newly drilled oil wells, cleaning the wells after injecting acid, and/or upon repairing the wells.
Such activities cause severe pollution of the environment and inflict heavy lost to the economy. It may also lead to tardiness and stoppage of the cleaning operation around the oil wells situated in vicinity of the residential areas and industrial establishments.
This preventive projects was originally initiated in 1991. Upon careful technical and operational studies, negotiation with domestic and foreign manufacturers of the needed facilities, as well as upon approval of the board of directors of NISOC and securing adequate means of execution the project, offer made of the domestic manufacturers to design and manufacture the facilities whose costs were estimated to be in vicinity of 15,800,000,000 Rials. The facilities were first installed in the operational zone of Ahwaz wells on 18/11/1999.
Manufacturing and utilization of the said mobile facilities were the first attempt of its kind in the country. The facilities not only protect the environment and help reducing the air pollution, but increase the country's foreign exchange revenue by $37.5 million per year, taking into account an average of $30 per barrel and 1,250,000 barrels of the oil saved through this operation.

Mobile Oil Treating (M.O.T.) package has been designed and constructed by CHAGALESH.