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Sunday, November 30, 2008
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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.
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