Water. Desalination + reuse
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BUSINESS May-June 2015 | Desalination & Water Reuse | 11 | Abengoa to build Morocco desalination plant Morocco's National Power and Drinking Water Office (ONEE) has contracted Spanish desalination company, Abengoa, to construct a 100,000 m³/d plant, some 45 km from the city of Agadir. The plant will be developed under ONEE's first public-private partnership (PPP) system. ONEE and its partner InfraMaroc (CDG Capital Infrastructures group) secured finance for the project of € 82 million (US$ 93 million) from banks led by Banque Marocaine du Commerce Extérieur. Construction has started on the facility which will use ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis to produce water for 500,000 people. Abengoa said the plant's capacity could be doubled in future. Abengoa has carried out major large-scale projects in the region, including the world's first integrated solar combined cycle plant located in Ain Beni Mathar. DooSaN IN LatIN amErIcaN fIrSt Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has shipped seawater desalination plant facilities to Escondida, for its first seawater desalination project in Latin America. Doosan won the US$102 million contract in September 2014 to build a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant at the Escondida copper mine in Chile, the largest copper mine in the world. The 220 Ml/d Escondida plant is the largest RO-type project in the Latin American region. chaNNEL ISLaND UtILIty mULLS EXtENSIoN to DESaLINatIoN pLaNt Jersey Water is proposing a £6 million (US$ 9 million) upgrade to its 6 Ml/d, seawater desalination plant at La Rosière, Corbiere, at the south-west corner of the is- land to cope with a "once in fifty years" severe drought. The plans would up the plant's output to 10.8 Ml/d and reduce energy consumption by 36%. SoUth KorEa IN KNowLEDgE traNSfEr DEaL wIth SaUDIS Saudi Arabia and South Korea have signed a memorandum of understanding for technology transference to Saudi. The Saudi Public Investment Fund agreed the memorandum of understanding with South Korean conglomerate, POSCO. It included the set up of means to transfer knowledge and technology to the kingdom. POSCO recently completed what it claimed to be South Korea's first commercial seawater desalination plant. The 30 Ml/d project supplies POSCO's steel mill at the port of Gwangyang. POSCO also unveiled plans to enter overseas desalination markets including the Middle East and Latin America. ISLaNDS to gEt paIr of Swro SyStEmS A consortium of Spanish water technology firm, Acciona Agua, and construction firm Sade-CGTH, has won a €16 million (US$ 18.5 million) design and build contract for a 5,000 m³/d seawater reverse osmosis plant on each of the African Cape Verde islands of Sal and São Vicente from the local energy and water utility, Electra-SARL. Construction on the two plants will be completed by 2017. ENErgy rEcovEry DoUBLE Pressure technology firm, Energy Recovery, has won orders totaling US$ 2 million for two separate projects. The first project was for the company's 45 PX-Q300s for a municipal desalination project for France's water engineering giant Veolia. The second was with Dubai- based water management company, Metito, for a 55 Ml/d desalination plant in Egypt. coNtract BrIEfS ____ For more details, visit www.desalination.biz __ A consortium led by Singapore-based desalination company, Hyflux, has signed a contract to build a OMR 100 million (US$ 260 million) seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Oman. e 200 Ml/d independent water project located in Qurayyat, in the Muscat governorate, will be the largest in the sultanate and supply some 17% of its peak demand. Oman Power and Water Procurement (OPWP) awarded the deal to the Hyflux and Modern Channels Services joint venture, Qurayyat Desalination Company aer considering bids from 12 consortia. Wholly-owned subsidiary of Hyflux, Hydrochem, will be the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the project's construction phase. e operation and maintenance of the project will be performed by a Hyflux subsidiary to be incorporated in Oman. Under a water purchase agreement, the Qurayyat Desalination Company will Hyflux-led venture wins US$ 260 million deal for Oman desalination plant supply desalinated water from the plant to OPWP for 20 years, from 2017 when the plant is scheduled to begin commercial operation. Hyflux said it will seek to increase local technical and water management knowledge in Oman as it begins the construction, operations and maintenance phases of the plant. "We will share the extensive experience and expertise we have gained through our large-scale desalination projects worldwide, and invest in training local Omani staff at our plants in Singapore," said chairman of the Qurayyat Desalination Company, Wong Lup Wai. e project is part of a series of similar desalination facilities planned by OPWP to keep up with the demand for water in the Sultanate, which is growing at about 6% a year taking it from 238 million m³ a year in 2013 to 349 million m³ a year in 2020. Last year the OPWP's seven-year forecasts for average annual growth was 3-5%.