SHANA � The Upstream Faculty of the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) is pursuing four large-scale research contracts in the field of enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

According to RIPI, Ezatullah Kazemzadeh, head of the institute's upstream faculty, outlined the campus' performance last calendar year which ended on March 19 as well as its strategic plans for the New Year.

He said the institute had concluded 12 research contracts with private and public companies in a wide range of operational fields including drilling, exploration, production and EOR as well as laboratory technologies.

The official said the EOR projects concerned comprehensive laboratory research on water and gas-based methods in Asmary and Bangestan reservoirs of Danan, Bibi Hakimeh and Ahwaz fields.