Operated by local subsidiary Bauer Nimr LLC, facility has cleaned over 370mn cubic metres of water so far, achieving a hydrocarbon content of less than 0.5 mg/l
Bauer Nimr LLC, the Omani subsidiary of German natural resources development and management company Bauer Resources GmbH, has marked ten years of operating the world’s largest commercial reed bed treatment plant located in the desert region of the Sultanate.
The plant is a multi-award-winning flagship project for the biological cleaning of polluted water from oil production at the Nimr oil field in the south of the country. With an area of 13.5 square kilometres, it is roughly the size of 1,600 football fields and can even be seen on satellite images, said a statement from Bauer, which added that the first phase of the project was completed by Bauer Nimr in 2011.