IDRO will manufacture 16 drilling rigs/ship building dry docks were launched
Eng. Shafei addressing the 14th maritime industries conference:
IDRO will manufacture 16 drilling rigs/ship building dry docks were launched
The chairman of the board of directors of Industrial Development and Renovation Organization stated that the organization is going ahead with the first stages of manufacturing 16 drilling rigs benefiting from expertise of Iranian capable companies.
Addressing the 14th conference on maritime industries, Eng. Gholamreza Shafei said: “The technology for manufacturing drilling rigs, especial for oil and gas industries, are in the hand of a limited number of countries. Other oil-rich countries, including Iran, should pay as much as 150,000 dollars per day to lease each rig for drilling operations.”
The deputy minister of industry, mine, and trade went on to say that after the visit of the Supreme Leader to the South Pars gas field, and his orders to accelerate the implementation of development projects in the gas field as well as the need for procuring offshore and onshore drilling rigs relying on domestic capabilities, IDRO embarked on accelerating the implementation of the South Pars gas field development projects based on the special representatives of the president and the cabinet in the oil industry working group.
Eng. Shafei added that IDRO will start manufacturing 16 offshore and onshore drilling rigs benefiting from technical capabilities of domestic companies in the fields of assessment, finance, and executive management, according to the world’s latest standards and technologies. The rigs will be delivered to the Oil Ministry to be put in operation in the South Pars projects.
After the decision of the administration, IDRO established a working group formed of manufacturers and operators, with the goal of evaluating capabilities of the manufacturing companies in order to share works and set up a consortium of manufacturers proportional with capabilities of the companies and forming a committee of operators to secure necessary financing and identifying required drilling rigs, the IDRO chairman stated.
He emphasized the need for continuous support from the maritime industry by the administration and the parliament. Eng. Shafei referred to the need for more attention to the role of maritime industries in the national development, saying that the association of maritime industries, which was established in 1998, has remarkably improved the status of such industries through holding annual conferences and meetings, so that the law for supporting maritime industries was ratified under pursuance of the association and supports of related officials.
He said that the measure was a good start for a progress in this industry. However, instructing the bylaw and the articles of association of the maritime industry’s development fund took a long time. The fund had not been set up, but it was decided to merge it with other funds, he noted.
The IDRO chairman thanked customers of maritime industries and said that the customers trusted domestic shipbuilders and made orders to them. This confidence has led to the production of large ocean-going and huge oil tankers inside the country using indigenized technologies, he said.
Shafei called domestic manufacturers to meet their obligations in supplying regarding quality, price, and time of delivery of ships and maritime equipment as well as after sale services and play their role in expanding this industry.
Compensating the previous lags, accelerating the attainment to technologies and meeting obligations are among the cases which will make us enable to compete in the international maritime industry, Shafei said.
He also said that dry docks, which are used for building and repairing ocean-going ships, are being established in Bandar Abbas. The docks have been filled with water and are passing required tests, he noted.
