Water. desalination + reuse

www.desalination.biz Water. desalination + reuse Who's Who 2018 EPCs landscape 5 The S&P Global Water Index has generated 7.1 per cent returns over 10 years, as against 9.23 per cent for the S&P 500 Index S&P Global Water Index versus S&P 500 Company profile: Aqualia Aqualia wins a clutch of new desal contracts projects in the current year: In January 2018, the Water Commission of State of Sonora, Mexico, awarded Aqualia a build, operate and transfer contract for Guaymas desalination plant. The project for a 17,280 m 3 /d plant includes design, fittings, construction, and commissioning, as well as operation and maintenance over 20 years. Capital investment is reportedly MXN 704 million ($37 million), with construction due to begin in June or July 2018, and completion slated for end of 2019. In February 2018, it won the Sohar Port project, Oman, which it secured in partnership with Oman Investment Fund and Majis Industrial Services, creating a new joint venture called Oman Sustainable Water Services (OSWS) to operate the hydraulics at the Port of Sohar for 20 years. OSWS's operations and maintenance services will cover collection of seawater, production and supply of potable water and process water, collection of, and a network for, cooling water, wastewater treatment, a sewage network, and management of recycled wastewater. The contract begins with extracting 16.8 million m 3 /d of seawater; an associated distribution network; a desalination plant of 20,000 m 3 /d; a water treatment plant of 10,000 m 3 /d; seawater outfall of 14.4 million m 3 /d; and pumping and process systems and potable water and sewage networks for 50,000 m 3 /d. • 49 per cent stake sold to Australian fund manager IFM Investors for €1,204 million • $320 million contract to design, build and operate a wastewater reuse plant in Cairo, Egypt Spanish water company FCC Aqualia has taken steps to financially restructure in the past 18 months. The company priced two new bond issues, totalling €5,063 million, to help pay down group debt in June 2017; and in November of that year it bought back a 49 per cent stake in its water business in the Czech Republic which had been sold in 2013. In March 2018, it sold a 49 per cent stake to Australian fund manager IFM Investors for €1,204 million. In terms of performance, the company reported turnover of €704 million ($843 million), a rise of 4.5 per cent, in the year to 31 December 2017. Of this, €9 million, or 1.3 per cent, came from desalination – the majority, £394 million, or 56 per cent, was from the water supply business. In desalination, the company won new contracts internationally, including for constructing a catchment facility at Mostaganem desalination plant, Sonatrach, Algeria, to increase the plant's capacity. And in September 2017, Aqualia and Orascom won a $320 million contract to design, build and operate a wastewater reuse plant in Cairo, Egypt. Abu Rawash wastewater 50 4/12 4/13 4/17 4/18 4/19 4/20 4/21 4/22 4/16 4/15 4/14 100 150 200 250 300 S&P 50 S&P Global Water Index 'Abu Rawash water reuse plant, Egypt, will process 1.6 million m 3 /d of wastewater for potable use' treatment plant will process 1.6 million m 3 /d of wastewater through primary and secondary treatment to produce potable water. Once complete, it will serve six million people. It follows a contract win in Egypt in 2016, to construct a 150,000 m 3 /d desalination plant at El Alamein. The company has continued to win new

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