INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
materializing the motto of the year, Oil Ministry and all of its subsidiaries have announced strong determination and prepared plans to this
end.National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), as one of the four major subsidiaries of Oil Ministry, plays an important part in materialization
this slogan.As Majid Chegeni, the managing director of the company, has said, the activity of the gas industry is directly related to the
issues of production and employment; because almost all industries in the country are dependent on gas energy, so the role of the NIGC
personnel is highlighted in this due.Emphasizing that supporting the knowledge-based companies is a main policy of the NIGC, the official
executive organizations that has taken good actions in the field of creating added value and using new technologies, and this important
Shourijeh, in which every year the National Iranian Gas Company stores the gas received from gas refineries all over the country to be used
in the colder months of the year.As announced in late June by the managing director of Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company (IGEDC),
14 gas storage facility development projects are currently underway across the country.Reza Noshadi also informed that about 25 percent of
the gas needed inside the country will be supplied from the underground gas storage (UGS) facilities by the next five years.According to the
official, in addition to the geographical distribution of the mentioned projects all around the country, they also have unique features in
terms of the required technology and complexity of operations.Storage in a salt dome and water reservoir are two of the mentioned projects
Iranian engineers and leads to the integration of knowledge and technology in the country, so we need to attract experts and experienced
capacity to 6.5 billion cubic meters (bmc) by the Iranian calendar year 1402 (starts in March 2023)
capacity and also the motto of this year, the NIGC has put benefiting from the capabilities of the knowledge-based companies in this field
on agenda.As stated on Tuesday by the operator of the project to store gas in Shourijeh UGS (in the northeastern Khorasan Razavi province),
Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company, in continuing to support knowledge-based companies, considers trust in domestic manufacturers
to be the essential element in the domestic production of strategic equipment, and by planning and implementing targeted programs, it is
determined to domestically produce the equipment needed in the Shourijeh project.Referring to the all-round support of the IGEDC to the
first phase of Shourijeh UGS, but in the development phase, we intend to manufacture the three required machines and these turbocompressors
have not been produced in such a volume in the country, he clarified that if the plans are realized and the manufacturing is successful, the
country will not need to import these sensitive and advanced equipment in future projects.
