Water. Desalination + reuse
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Water. desalination + reuse June 2017 The Quarterly 5 ISRAEL Mekorot looks to restructure Israel's national water company Mekorot is restructuring and may sell off parts of its portfolio a er running into fi nancial diffi culty reported Israeli business publication, TheMarker. The Israeli government has approved NIS 366 million ($101 million) of public funds to support Ashdod desalination plant, whose performance is reportedly at the heart of the company's problems. A turnkey contract for Ashdod was awarded to IVM, a joint venture of Minrav and Sadyt, in 2009. Mekorot owns desalination plants in Cyprus, situated in Limassol and Larnaca. CYPRUS Desal BOOT tender shapes up The Cyprus Water Development Department is to initiate a tender for a desalination plant in Kouklia, Paphos, on a build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT) basis. The capacity of the plant will be 15,000 m3/d, and it will be built on the site of a temporary facility set up in 2010, which is now being dismantled. Cyprus wants to reduce its reliance on rain-dependent water sources in readiness for possible future drought. The temporary plant was constructed following an extended drought during 2008. OMAN Six fi rms prequalify for desal project GS Inima and Veolia Middle East are among six entities shortlisted for a desalination plant project in Khasab, Oman. The others are a consortium of ACWA Emirates and Sogex Oman, as well as AquaVenture/ Seven Seas, Tedagua, and Utico. The six were chosen from 13 statements of qualifi cation received in February by Oman Power and Water Procurement Co. The proposed 16,000 m3/d desalination plant project will be the fi rst such in Oman to be delivered by the private sector. Demand for drinking water in Oman's northern region, which includes Muscat, the port and capital city, is expected to raise by six per cent a year in the three years to 2020. SAUDI ARABIA ACWA Power sells stake in Shuqaiq IWPP ACWA Power has sold an eff ective eight per cent stake in Shuqaiq Independent Water & Power Project (IWPP), Saudi Arabia, to the regional development bank Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP). The deal refl ects a 2014 memorandum of understanding between ACWA Power and APICORP that signalled future collaboration on desalination and power generation projects. Shuqaiq IWPP is one of ACWA Power's early greenfi eld projects in Saudi. It began operations in 2011 and has a 20-year power and water purchase agreement with Water & Electricity Company, Saudi Arabia. Located in the south west, on the coast of the Red Sea, it has capacity to produce 212,000 m3/d of desalinated water, and 850 MW of power. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Qatar's Ras Abu Fontas A3 completes The fi rst large scale seawater reverse osmosis plant in Qatar, Ras Abu Fontas A3, was offi cially opened by prime minister Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani (right), and minister of energy and industry, and chair of Qatar Electricity and Water Company (QEWC), Mohammaed Saleh Al Sada, in April. Located at Al Wakra, south of the capital Doha, the desalination plant has capacity of 164,000 m3/d and will supply a million people through Kahramaa, Qatar's national power and water utility. Acciona Agua was contracted by Mitsubishi Corp to design and construct the desalination units, and will operate and maintain the facility over 10 years. Mitsubishi and Toyo Thai Corp were jointly awarded the engineer, procure and construct contact.