Ahvaz, IRNA – Managing director of National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) while referring to Petroleum Ministry's policy to expand oil tanks' capacity and boosting production motto of New Year said that NIDC will take more advantage of knowledge-based companies in drilling oil wells.

Engineer Hamid Golpayegani made the comment in his New Year meeting with the workers of Fat'h-25 Drilling Operation Station in Ahvaz Oilfield, reiterating, "Making brisker, and accelerating the reconstruction and renovation process of oil wells, is a serious priority in the New Year for all of us."

He said that out of 73 light, heavy, and super-heavy drilling derricks in the past Iranian year, 1401, 63 were used by the NIDC, "by using which we drilled more than 67,000 meters of wells."

 "We have planned comprehensively to accelerate the drilling process this year, and it is expected that after the reconstruction and renovation of the wells and their facilities, we will be witnesses to taking greater advantage of the capabilities of knowledge-based companies in country's oilfields," added Golpayegani.

Fat'h-25 Drilling Operation Station in Ahvaz Oil Field has currently only one well under the reconstruction and renovation process.

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