Water. Desalination + reuse
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Water. desalination + reuse September 2018 The Quarterly 5 INDIA India seeks information from desalination providers The government of India has called on desalination companies to support its National Mission on Desalination (NMD) by providing details of their technologies. The call-out to providers requests information on technologies for desalinating brackish water and seawater, for municipal, agricultural, and industrial use; it wants technologies already commercialised, on the cusp of commercialisation, or likely to come to market within the next fi ve years. The department of science and technology, part of India's ministry of science and technology, aims to use the information to create a Compendium of Technological Solutions. The guide will be available to central, state, and local government agencies and other organisations for use in procuring desalination projects. India's NMD was developed in 2017 with the aim of ensuring national water security, and to provide safe drinking water supplies to water-scarce areas of the country. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ACWA Power is preferred bidder for Umm Al Quwain A consortium led by ACWA Power has been named as the preferred bidder for the United Arab Emirate's (UAE) Umm Al Quwain desalination plant project. The UAE's Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA) appointed ACWA Power and partner Tecton Engineering and Construction to design, build, and fi nance a 205,000 m3/d capacity plant at Umm Al Quwain, and operate it for 25 years. There will be a fi nal round of contract talks with the aim to achieve fi nancial close by end of September 2018. The water agency confi rmed that three further desalination plant projects, for which locations and capacities have been agreed, are to be tendered before the end of 2018, all on a public-private partnership (PPP) model. Umm Al Qu wain is the fi rst desalination project in UAE to be structured as a PPP. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ADWEA pre-qualifi es 25 fi rms for Taweela desal plant Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) has pre-qualifi ed 25 bidders for its mega desalination project at Taweela. The 13 companies to prequalify unconditionally are: ACWA Power, Acciona Agua, Aqualia, Cobra, Engie, JGC, Malakoff , Marubeni, Mitsubishi, Suez, Sumitomo, Valoriza, and Veolia. A further 12 companies have qualifi ed conditionally and must join a consortium to bid. They are: China Harbor, GIC, GS Inima, Hyfl ux, IDB Infrastructure, Orascom Construction, PAL Group, Power China, Samsung, SNC Lavalin, Sojitz, and Utico. The competition is for a developer or developers for a project whose total capacity is 909,000 m3/d. The deadline for bids is 29 October 2018. OMAN ACWA Power, Sembcorp, and Suez among Al Ghubrah III pre-quals Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) released the list of pre-qualifi ed companies for its planned 300,000 m3/d capacity desalination plant in Al Ghubrah, Muscat. They are: Cobra Instalaciones Y Servicio, with FCC Aqualia, and Majis Industrial Services; GS Inima Environment; International Company for Water and Power Projects (ACWA Power); International Power; Marubeni Corporation; Sembcorp Utilities; Suez International; and Sumitomo Corporation with Malakoff International. Eleven fi rms requested to qualify for the project, of which those not to make the cut are: Abengoa, with Shumookh Investment and Services, Engineering Procurement & Project Management (EEPM), and Al Bashir Investment; Sojitz Corporation; and Utico FZC, with IDB Infrastructure Fun, and United Water. The scope of work will comprise development, fi nancing, design, engineering, construction, ownership, and operations and maintenance, and will include construction of new seawater intake and outfall structures, and a reservoir to be owned and operated by Oman's Public Authority for Electricity and Water. Project completion is slated for 2022. OMAN OPWP awards BOT contract on Sharqiyah desal plant Japanese engineers JGC Corporation won a build, own, and operate contract for a desalination plant in Oman, with Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction as contractor. The project will be developed and operated over 20 years by special purpose vehicle Al Asilah Desalination Company, of which JGC Corp owns 75 per cent; 20 per cent is owned by United Infrastructure Development Company (UIDC), a unit of Bahwan Engineering Group, Oman; and Doosan holds 5 per cent. The contract is for an SWRO plant of 80,000 m3/d. 300,000 m3/d capacity