Upstream Research and Development Center
Established concurrently with RIPI in 1959 as a research unit, the Upstream Research and Development Center began its activities with petroleum engineering laboratories and expanded into other upstream oil and gas sectors. The center focuses on applied research, development, and management of conventional and unconventional reservoirs, improving production methods, addressing technological needs, providing technical knowledge, offering laboratory scientific services, and resolving operational challenges.
The Upstream Center aligns its efforts with achieving the oil industry’s value chain goals, addressing current challenges, and developing forward-looking plans in the upstream sector of the National Iranian Oil Company. It produces technology, acquires technological knowledge, and provides innovative technological solutions, including:
– Developing methods for unconventional hydrocarbon resources.
– Developing and applying modern technologies for reservoir management and enhanced recovery tailored to Iranian reservoir conditions.
– Adopting approaches to increase production by addressing issues such as wax and asphaltene deposition, sand production, and casing collapse.
– Ensuring energy-supply-chain sustainability through underground storage of natural gas and hydrogen.
Vision:
Conducting fundamental and applied research, comprehensive studies, providing scientific and laboratory services, as well as scientific and managerial consulting to address the technological needs of the oil industry and resolve its operational challenges within the country.
Mission:
In alignment with the strategic objectives of the oil industry value chain, the Upstream Research and Development Center, is committed to the development and acquisition of advanced technologies as well as the provision of innovative and technology-driven solutions. This Center addresses the current challenges and evaluating developmental along with forward-looking plans within the upstream sector of the National Iranian Oil Company.
Goals:
– Providing methods for developing unconventional hydrocarbon resources
– Development and application of new technologies for management and increased extraction in accordance with the conditions of Iranian reservoirs.
– Adopting an approach to increasing production by solving problems such as wax and asphalt deposits, sand production, lining clogging, etc.
– Sustainability of the energy supply chain by storing natural gas and hydrogen underground
Research Institutes:
Geosciences Research Institute :
The Institute of Earth Sciences has three research groups: geology, geochemistry, and geophysics. It was established to implement study and research projects and to help resolve problems and dilemmas related to the processes of exploration, development, and exploitation of hydrocarbon reservoirs and fields. This research institute has been able to take steps in new areas of science and technology in the field of exploration, development, and production of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources
- Petroleum Geology Research Group
- Geochemistry Research Group
- Geophysics Research Group
Petroleum Engineering Research Institute:
This research institute consists of three study and research groups in the fields of drilling and well completion technologies, reservoir production and exploitation technologies, reservoir rock and fluid technologies, and laboratory services. By employing specialized and experienced personnel and advanced laboratory equipment, this research institute has focused its most important research and service activities on research, development, and achievement of new technologies around the axes of drilling, production, recovery enhancement, and providing laboratory services by using the most advanced technologies in various fields of petroleum engineering.
- Reservoir Rock and Fluid Research and Technologies Group
- Reservoir Production and Efficiency Research and Technologies Group
- Well Drilling and Completion Research and Technologies Group
- Scientific laboratory services
Research Institute for Increased Recovery from Oil and Gas Reservoirs:
The Oil and Gas Field Recovery Research Institute, relying on a specialized and experienced human resource and with an integrated teamwork approach, conducts fundamental, technological, and applied research to meet the needs of the oil industry and overcome operational challenges in the fields of reservoir studies and characterization, oil and gas reservoir simulation, reservoir management, and recovery enhancement.
- Reservoir Studies Research Group
- Reservoir Engineering and Modeling Research Group
- Reservoir Management and Field Development Research Group
- Research Group on Methods for Increasing Reservoir Withdrawal