Azerbaijan, Baku, Sep.30/ Trend F.Milad/
Researchers at Iran's Elm-o Sanat University of Technology have attained the technology for manufacturing marine loading arms, which are used to load and unload crude oil and gas condensates from river barges, ships and ocean going super tankers.
"Five loading arms are projected to be built by the researchers," the ISNA news agency quoted the director of the Collegiate Jihad Institute as saying.
Attaining technologies related to different sectors of the oil industry will make the country self-sufficient, Hamidreza Tayyebi said.
Iran plans to become self-sufficient in producing 19 highly used goods which are strategic in the oil industry, the deputy oil minister for technology said in July.
Mohammad-Reza Moqaddam added that according to Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi's order, technologies for manufacturing the 19 oil goods should be indigenized by the end of the fifth five-year development plan (2015), the Mehr news agency reported.
The strategic goods include onshore and offshore drilling rigs, pumps, turbines and precision tools.