A group of researchers at Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology in Tehran has indigenized electric submersible pumps (ESPs) that will help raise crude output in Iran�s oilfields, the head of the research team said.

�The university has an annual production capacity of 50 pumps, the import of which costs the National Iranian Oil Company around $50 million,� Abbas Nazari said.

The locally-produced ESPs can compete with foreign brands quality-wise and are more economical than imported counterparts, he added, according to Finacial Tribune.

The official said more than 90% of all producing oil wells require some form of artificial lift to increase the flow of fluids from wells when a reservoir no longer has sufficient energy to naturally produce at economic rates or to boost early production to improve financial performance.

 

 

By MEHR�