Bushehr Desalination
Seawater RO, 39,500 m3/day contracted, being 22,500 m3/day in phases 1 and 2 and 17,000 m3/day in phase 4; 45,000 m3/day final nominal, being 25,000 and 20,000 m3/day; the contractor heads the site 40,000 m3/day in Iran.
The record
- Country
- Iran
- Location
- Bushehr
- Coordinates
- 28.907, 50.818
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 39,500 m3/day contracted, being 22,500 m3/day in phases 1 and 2 and 17,000 m3/day in phase 4; 45,000 m3/day final nominal, being 25,000 and 20,000 m3/day; the contractor heads the site 40,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Bushehr Province Water and Wastewater Company
- Contractor
- NVCo, with design and equipment by Axiom and B2A of Austria
- Operator
- NVCo
- Finance
- Export Development Bank of Iran, on build, own and operate contracts running 15 years from start-up
- Award or start year
- 2013
- Commissioned
- 2016
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2013
phases I and II awarded on a build, own and operate basis for 15 years from start-up
- 2016
phases I and II start up at a final 25,000 m3/day
- 2020
phase IV awarded on the same basis
- 2022
phase IV starts up at a final 20,000 m3/day
Sources
2 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- NVCo, Bushehr 40,000 m3/day SWRO desalination plant (project page). nvco.org.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
Client the Bushehr Province Water and Wastewater Company for the supply of potable water to the city of Bushehr, financed by the Export Development Bank of Iran on build, own and operate contracts of 15 years from start-up. Phases I and II awarded 2013 and started up 2016 at a contractual 22,500 m3/day and a final 25,000 m3/day; phase IV awarded 2020 and started up 2022 at a contractual 17,000 m3/day and a final 20,000 m3/day. Open intake from the Persian Gulf with chlorination, pretreatment, cartridge filters, high pressure pumps, pressure vessels and membranes, CIP unit, raw water and permeate tanks, dosing, instrumentation and PLC, substation and panels; a 7 km transfer pipeline runs from the concrete permeate tank to the city network. The page's headline figure of 40,000 m3/day matches neither the sum of the contractual capacities nor the sum of the final capacities.