Iran Armed with hi-tech oil industries

Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Rokneddin Javadi announced that the country has achieved advanced technologies in building equipment for high-stream oil industries.

Javadi's remarks came after Iran unveiled its first home-made solar centaur gas turbine in a ceremony in Tehran on Sunday night.

"Building of the turbine is a promising sign that we can easily build many high-stream oil industry equipment inside the country," he told reporters.

"Building of the gas turbine is considered among hi-tech industries, specially given the fact that this special model is among the most complicated parts built in the world, and its indigenization shows that we are capable of building much more complicated equipment and machines," Javadi said.

He expressed the hope that the production line of the gas turbine would be launched in the country soon and would be mass-produced.

After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 when foreign experts left the country, Iranian researchers, engineers and technicians in the oil ministry tried hard to manufacture the equipment they needed to run the oil industry.

Afther decades of unsparing efforts, Iran can currently manufacture various kinds of compressors, pipes, valves, and pressure storage tanks, and meantime has made a great headway in offshore pipe-laying and platform construction.

In January, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh praised his ministry's technical staff and managers for the efforts they have made to turn the country into the main supplier of oil industry equipment in the Middle-East region.

"We have plans to acquire the savvy for constructing ten groups of equipment and items crucially needed in the oil industry," said Zanganeh.

"Once the plans are finalized, Iran will become the region's number-one equipment supplier," he further added.

"This is besides the fact that we are currently in a good state in terms of services and implementation of projects," he added.