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Zagros campaign to begin

as Iran keeps drilling

IRAN THE Iranian Central Oil Fields Co. (ICOFC) including shooting 2D and 3D seismic, studies
will soon begin a new drilling campaign across for improved and enhanced oil recovery (IOR/
the provinces of Bushehr, Fars and Hormozgan EOR), well work-overs and the construction
as Iran maintains its prolific drilling record. of pipelines connecting the field to the Nargesi
According to ICOFC managing director central processing facility (CPF) and the Shiraz
Ramin Hatami, 90 new development wells and refinery. This also included work to allow for the
17 workover wells will be drilled during the next expansion of production at the Sarvestan and
five years by its subsidiary South Zagros Oil and Saadatabad oilfields to 30,000 bpd.
Gas Production Co. (SZOGPC).
The subsidiary operates two oilfields and nine National effort
gas fields spread over the three provinces and is The Zagros drilling campaign is part of a nation-
the largest of ICOFC’s affiliates. wide effort overseen by the National Iranian
SZOGPC is working to commission the first Drilling Co. (NIDC) which last month provided
phase of production at the Khesht oilfield on a 10-month drilling update, showing the com-
the border of Iran’s Fars and Bushehr Provinces pletion of 62 oil and gas wells.
having announced in late October that it had The company’s deputy head of drilling oper-
achieved 99% completion of the early oil produc- ations, Masoud Afshar, said that 54 of the wells
tion stage, targeting production of 20,000 barrels were workovers while four were developmental
per day (bpd). and four were exploratory.
Last year, Hatami was quoted by official oil Of those drilled, 46 were carried out in the
and gas media outlet Shana as saying: “The early operating zone of the National Iranian South
phase of the field will be operational in the first Oil Co. (NISOC), nine were supervised by the
half of next year with the launch of three wells, Iranian Offshore Oil Co. (IOOC), three under
and the produced oil will be sent to Nargesi the guidance of the Petroleum Engineering and
Center via a 10-inch [254mm] pipeline.” He Development Co. (PEDEC), and one overseen
added that a total of five wells would be required by ICOFC. All of these are subsidiaries of the
to complete the field’s development. National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) whose drilling
Meanwhile, the ICOFC website lists achiev- management department drilled two wells on its
ing 30,000 bpd of output at Khesht and develop- own behalf.
ment of “transmission to Gonaveh manifold for Afshar noted that NIDC owns 70 light,
export” as one of the company’s active projects. heavy and super-heavy drilling rigs, including
Qeshm Oil and Energy Industries Devel- 67 onshore drilling rigs and three offshore rigs,
opment Co. (OEID) previously carried with 14 of these currently being relocated to new
out extensive contracting work at Khesht operating positions.™

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