Azerbaijan, Baku, May 20/ Trend F.Milad/
The Iranian National Drilling Company (NDC) has managed to manufacture a system for controlling drilling operations at the Sardar Jangal field, located in the Caspian Sea, NDC official Gholam-Abbas Tahmasbi stated.
Gholam-Abbas Tahmasbi told the Shana News Agency that the system includes two drilling seats which are equipped with telecommunication and industrial automation units.
The foreign-made competitor of the system is priced at some $2 million, he said, adding that the system has been manufactured after studying specifications of 30 similar systems around the world.
On May 10, the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) announced that it has discovered a large oil deposit in deep waters in the Caspian Sea.
The oil deposit has been discovered in the Sardar Jangal gas field which contains 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
NIOC officials say that the gas field at a depth of 700 meters (2,300 feet) lies wholly within Iran's maritime borders and is not shared by the neighboring Caspian littoral states - Azerbaijan or Turkmenistan.
Iran announced in December 2011 that it had discovered a large gas field in the Caspian Sea with at least 50 trillion cubic feet (some 1.4 trillion cubic meters) of reserves.