Iran Press/ Iran News: The Fath-72 has been completely designed and constructed by experts from the province’s Academic Center for Education, Culture, and Research (ACECR).
The unveiling ceremony was attended by senior officials including Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, Managing Director of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Masoud Karbasian, and Chief of the Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research Hamid-Reza Tayebi, as well as the Managing Director of National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) Seyed Abdollah Mousavi.
Zanegeh told the correspondents that the supporting and enforcing of the startups and knowledge-based companies are on Iran's oil Ministry agenda.
As the sixth domestically–made drilling rig, Fath-72 is going to be installed and used in one of the new fields discovered in the region.
ACECR has signed a €33-million deal with the National Iranian Oil Company for construction of three drilling rigs, one of which is Fath-72.
The rig’s maximum drilling depth is reported to be 20,000 feet, and the structure is able to tolerate a maximum static load of one million pounds.
Fath-72 is also equipped with a 500-ton top drive which is used to rotate the drill string during the drilling process, a 137.5-inch rotary table and three reciprocating mud pumps each with a power up to 1600 horsepower (hp).
In a building process of each oil rig, some 400 people need as the staff so it can also be considered as the source of job creation.
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