Iran launches first exploration robot in Caspian Sea
IRAN: Iran’s North Drilling Company says the country launched its
first exploration robot in the Caspian Sea’s Sardar-e Jangal gas field
last year to take offshore drilling operations to a depth of 800-1,000
meters.
The company’s Managing Director, Hedayatollah Khademi, said on Monday
that Iran has become the first country in the Middle East to activate an
oil exploration robot at a depth of 800 meters.
He said the robot moves along the Caspian seabed and its main duty is
opening and closing undersea valves that control oil gush.
The official added that moving equipment at a depth of 800-1,000
meters of the Caspian Sea is another job for the robot.
“Sending pictures to Amir Kabir [drilling] platform and reporting
possible oil and gas leaks are also among the other duties of this oil
robot,” he noted.
Khademi went on to say that the first exploration well at Sardar-e
Jangal gas field has been drilled to a depth of 2,563 meters and has hit
the gas reservoir on the Caspian seabed.
He added that drilling appraisal and developmental wells will be the
next stages of the work on the field.
PRESS TV
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