Iran Indigenizes Know-How for Drilling Equipment Production

National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) indigenized the knowledge for manufacturing 6,000 drilling equipment in collaboration with domestic manufacturers and engineers in the previous Iranian calendar year (March 2019-20), the head of NIDC's Technology and Engineering Department said.

According to Behnoud Mansournejad, before this success, the technology for manufacturing the mentioned equipment was in the possession of a handful of foreign companies. Among this equipment, the parts related to the rotary Blow out Preventers (BOP) used in air drilling operations have been tested in operation and approved by the operational units for optimal performance. Mansournejad said that the use of the domestically-made parts and equipment saved the country IRR 45 billion (US$281,250) in the previous year.

For the current year, a list of basic equipment needs of the country have been identified in collaboration with NIDC’s operational and support departments to be indigenized by local companies and knowledge-based firms for the first time, he added.

Earlier in 2019, Mansournejad had announced that almost 80% of the oil and gas industry's drilling equipment needs have been indigenized by NIDC in the past decade. According to the official, the equipment indigenized by NIDC includes drilling mud pumps, blowout preventers, traction motors, draw-works, drilling fluid recycling systems, mission centrifugal pumps, top drives, and drilling rig slow circulation rate pressure systems. - Tehran Times