NISOC seeking plans to improve rate of recovery from reserves

National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC) is pursing plans to improve rate of recovery (ROR) from oil and gas reserves, the company's managing director said.
"We have several plans to improve ROR from reserves. Gas injection into oilfields and applying new methods for drilling are some of them," Seifollah Jashnsaz told in Ahvaz, capital city of south-western province of Khuzestan. Presently, three giant projects of gas injection into Nargesi, Qale-Naar, and Lab-Sefid oilfields are underway, he continued.

Gas injection into Nargesi is 50 % complete, while identical project for Lab-Sefid is at the planning stage, the official added without giving details on Qale-Naar project.
Elsewhere, Janshsaz noted that NISOC has achieved to fulfil a production of 20,000 bpd of crude at Marun Field from Bangestan Reserve, "which is very close to scheduled figure, that is 21,000 bpd," according to him. He added that at the same field, gas is produced from Khami Reserve, but he did not specify the figure.

Also, Naft-Shahr Desalination Unit will be put into operation by late March 2007.
"Scheduled to become operational by March, the unit will sweeten extracted salt crude oil," Alireza Zeighami, the managing director of the Iranian Central Oil Fields Company (ICOFC) told the agency. NISOC and ICOFC are both affiliates to the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), operating on onshore oil and gas fields in southern and central Iran respectively.