Speaking to Shana, NIDC’s managing director, Hamid Reza Golpayegani, made the remarks adding the two sides negotiated on boosting cooperation especially in engineering and technical services pertaining to oil and gas wells and sharing capabilities.

He went on to say that the two companies reached agreement on setting up a bilateral working group for boosting technical and training cooperation with the aim of concluding a contract.

‘Cooperation with the international as well as neighboring countries’ companies has been included in the Outlook Plan of NIDC’, the official noted.  

On NIDC’s training drilling workforce, Golpayegani said: one of the major privileges of NIDC is its skill in training needed workforce so that not only all the professional forces of the company have passed training courses being held by the company but the company has trained applicants from private sector companies of other countries including from Bolivia.

‘It was agreed a number of Iraq’s drilling sector experts to come to Iran to attend NIDC’s training courses related to engineering and technical services especially in diversion drilling’, he noted.
 
Referring to NIDC as a well-known international company, the NIDC’s official said: NIDC has been founded on strong engineering and technical knowhow and the company with more than three decades of activity has demonstrated its capabilities in drilling of highly sophisticated oil and gas reservoirs across the country.
 
The company is in charge of 74 onshore and offshore drilling rigs across the country to address the oil industry needs in the sector, the official concluded.