Speaking several days ago to Al-Jumhuriyah, the Iraqi minister of military industrialization, Abd-al-Tawwab Abdallah al-Mulla Huwaysh, claimed that the state-controlled Military Industrialization Organization (MIO) had succeeded in developing technologies needed by the country’s oil industry, which previously had only been available from abroad.
In so doing, the minister said, they had managed to break “the unjust blockade imposed on the Iraqi people.”
According to the minister, the MIO entry into the oil sector was gradual and deliberate.
Its first breakthrough came with the manufacture of seismic bombs, and it then moved onto the production of specialized drilling bits.
More recent developments by the MIO include equipment for the treatment of “humid” oil, which involves oil wells in which water has gathered.
The MIO also produces catalysts that are added to the oil products, and steam boilers that are used for refining crude oil and manufacturing basic oil products. – (Albawaba-MEBG)
