Green tech in Oman enables water from oil wells to reach 95 percent purity

Green tech in Oman enables water from oil wells to reach 95 percent purity

Muscat: The Nimr Reed Beds located in the south of Oman are capable of cleaning up to 95 percent of oil present in water that is brought up from the ground during the extraction of fossil fuels. In the middle of the Nimr desert landscape of Petroleum Development Oman's (PDO) concession area, Bauer Nimr LLC, a local subsidiary of the German company Bauer Resources GmbH, has now been operating the world's largest commercial reed bed treatment plant for more than ten years as a partner of PDO. With an area of 13. 5 sq. km, the project is roughly the size of 2, 000 football fields and can even be seen on satellite images. The multi-award winning flagship project was awarded to Bauer Nimr by PDO for the biological cleaning of produced water from oil production at its Nimr oil field in the south of the country, with the first phase of the project completed by Bauer Nimr in 2011. After just three weeks, the plant achieved its first milestone: "We were able to outperform the contractually agreed cleaning capacity of 45, 000 cubic metres per day in phase one of the plant," said Ulrich Emmer, managing director of Bauer