Chabahar Desalination
Seawater RO, 50,000 m3/day contracted in three phases of 15,000, 15,000 and 20,000 m3/day; 57,500 m3/day final nominal, being 17,500, 17,500 and 22,500 m3/day; the contractor heads the site 62,500 m3/day in Iran.
The record
- Country
- Iran
- Location
- Chabahar
- Coordinates
- 25.442, 60.486
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 50,000 m3/day contracted in three phases of 15,000, 15,000 and 20,000 m3/day; 57,500 m3/day final nominal, being 17,500, 17,500 and 22,500 m3/day; the contractor heads the site 62,500 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Sistan and Baluchestan 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 a build, own, operate and transfer contract for phase I and a build, own and operate contract for phase II
- Award or start year
- 2011
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2011
phase I awarded on a build, own, operate and transfer basis
- 2013
phase II awarded on a build, own and operate basis after a separate tender
- 2022
phase III awarded with 24 months to start-up and a contract running to 2038
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, Chabahar 62,500 m3/day SWRO desalination plant, phases I, II and III (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 Sistan and Baluchestan Province Water and Wastewater Company for the supply of potable water to the city of Chabahar, financed by the Export Development Bank of Iran. Phase I awarded 2011, ten months to start-up, ten-year contract, contractual 15,000 m3/day and final nominal 17,500 m3/day; phase II awarded 2013 on the same terms and capacities; phase III awarded 2022, 24 months to start-up, contract to 2038, contractual 20,000 m3/day and final nominal 22,500 m3/day. Feed water is taken from the Sea of Oman through a direct intake, dosed with flocculant, passed through gravity sand filters to a tank, then cartridge filters and the SWRO units by pumping station; the permeate goes by pump station and transfer pipeline to a concrete tank and into the Chabahar and Konarak distribution network. The page's headline figure of 62,500 m3/day matches neither the sum of the contractual capacities nor the sum of the final nominal capacities.