Water. Desalination + reuse
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4 The Quarterly September 2018 Water. desalination + reuse The Quarterly Strong demand for desalination in the Middle East is driving contract awards across the region; India seeks input from providers SAUDI ARABIA SWCC procures fl oating desalination Saudi Arabia's Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has procured three desalination units to be installed on barges off the Red Sea coast to provide fl oating capacity of 150,000 m3/d over 20 years. The units will be situated opposite the desal facilities at Al Shaqiq in the southwest, feeding the tanks there, and supplying Jazan and Asir provinces. They will have the fl exibility to travel along the coast to any of the reverse osmosis desalination plants in Saudi Arabia, providing additional capacity where needed. The three units each of 50,000 m3/d are expected to be operating by October 2019. SAUDI ARABIA ACWA Power shaves $0.01 off next-best price in Rabigh 3 bidding ACWA Power is off ering the most competitive price by $0.01 out of fi ve bidding consortia for Rabigh 3 independent power and water project. The off -taker, Saudi Arabia's Water and Electricity Company (WEC), revealed that ACWA Power quoted a levellised cost of SAR 1.992 ($0.53) per cube of product water, compared to Marubeni $0.54, Veolia $0.56, Valoriza $0.61, and FCC Aqualia $0.70. The project to develop, fi nance, procure, implement, operate, and maintain a 600,000 m3/d desalination facility in Rabigh, north of Jeddah, will potential double capacity to 1.2 million m3/d. The contract is over 25 years. SAUDI ARABIA Acciona Agua wins €200 million Al Kohbar contract Acciona Agua won a €200 million ($232 million) contract to design and build Al Khobar desalination plant on Saudi Arabia's east coast. The engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract is for 210,000 m3/d of reverse osmosis (RO) capacity on the Gulf coast, 400 kilometres east of Riyadh. The plant will supply desalinated water to SWCC for municipal use, and to oil giant Saudi Aramco. The project is scheduled to complete by end of 2020. "Acciona Agua was selected as contractor owing to our highly effi cient design, enabling us to off er a competitive price, to optimise operating costs, and to reduce specifi c power consumption. This will be our sixth seawater RO in the Gulf," said head of business development Julio de la Rosa. CHILE Mitsui & ACS source fi nance for Spence copper mine project Mitsui & Co and ACS Group have secured $560 million in fi nancing for the Spence copper mine desalination plant project in northern Chile. Japan's Mitsui & Co and Tedagua of Spain, a subsidiary of ACS Group, were awarded the project, which forms part of an expansion of BHP's Spence copper mine, in October 2017. The partners formed special purpose company Caitan, a 50-50 joint venture, to supply desalinated water to the mine for 20 years. The project is for 86,400 m3/d of desal capacity at Mejillones Port, a conveyance system, and power transmission lines. The funds comprise a $472 million loan over 17 years, a credit letter, and VAT facility. The lenders are: BBVA, Credit Agricole, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo, Mizuho, MUFG, National Australia Bank, Nippon $560 million SOUTH AFRICA City of Cape Town tenders three water reuse projects The City of Cape Town is tendering three water reuse aquifer recharge projects as part of its ongoing drought response plan. They comprise: 36,000 m3/d used water treatment facility at Cape Flats Wastewater Treatment Works; 22,000 m3/d at Mitchells Plain; and 16,000 m3/d at Borcherd's Quarry. The City asked for "a mechanical and engineering fi rm with experience in the design and construction of direct and indirect potable reuse schemes," and is seeking a multi-barrier treatment train that runs as follows: Mechanical fi ltration, Ozone-Biological Activated Carbon (BAC), Granular Activated Carbon (GAC), an Ultraviolet Advanced Oxidation Process (UV AOP), and pumping.