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The Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, also known as NIOC-RIPI, often shortened to RIPI (Persian: پژوهشگاه صنعت نفت) is a governmental research institute founded in 1959 in Tehran, Iran and is affiliated with National Iranian Oil Company.
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The institute is a major research institute in Iran and is the largest of its kind in the Middle East. RIPI has become a major technology provider for Iran’s petroleum industry. In 2002, it developed a technology that converts heavy crude oil into the more desirable, a new generation of GTL technology.
History
The institute was established in 1959 with the name "NIOC bureau for development and research" (Persian: اداره توسعه و تحقیقات شرکت ملی نفت ایران). The mission of the bureau was limited to research and development in the applications of petrochemical materials.
After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the organization was renamed to "the Center for Research and Scientific Services" (Persian: مرکز پژوهش و خدمات علمی) and then in 1990 with a major rebuilding of missions, to the current name "Research Institute of Petroleum Industry". The activities were then upgraded to fundamental, applied and developmental research in oil, natural gas and petro-chemistry.
Staff
RIPI has 700 staff including 95 Ph.Ds, 339 M.Scs and 127 B.Scs.
Sections
RIPI has three campuses:
Sub-sections and faculties are included in each campus, which in turn are hosts to research groups in the fields of oil and gas.