Round Up: Metito bags water treatment project in Iraq

Metito bags water treatment project in Iraq

Metito has signed a contract with Al Mustakbal Al Saeed Group of Companies (MSGC), worth Iraqi Dinars 33 billion (approximately Dh104 million), to design and construct the 48,000 m³/day plant Hindiyah Water treatment plant, which will cater to Karbala. Prior to this project, Metito had signed contracts worth Iraqi Dinars 61 billion with MSGC for the Al Khayrat water treatment project (a 96,000 m³/day capacity plant to supply potable water to the Al Khayrat and Jadwal Gharbi areas) and the 384,000 m³/day Amara water treatment plant project to supply potable water to the entire Amara city.

Pratibha Industries, a listed infrastructure construction and development company in India, has opened its Middle East account with a Rs 350 crore maiden contract from the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA). The contract is for the construction of Al Ghafat Water Reservoirs Phases I & II and other associated works in Dubai. The announcement was made in a release dated December 2, 2010 to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The execution of the order has to be completed in a time frame of 24 months.

AECOM has been selected for a task order under the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) Global Architecture Engineering Infrastructure Indefinite Quantity Contract. The $28-million, five-year task order pertains to USAID's Water Reuse and Environmental Conservation Project based in Amman, Jordan. Under the agreement, AECOM will work with USAID to increase industrial wastewater reuse, reduce energy consumption, improve regulatory enforcement, expand knowledge sharing, and reduce industrial pollution in the region.

Hyflux has bagged an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract worth $100 million for a 40,000 m³/day SWRO desalination plant at Tobruk, in north-eastern Libya. The project, the first in the country for Hyflux, was awarded by the General People’s Committee for Utilities of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the result of an international bid held earlier in the year. The contract also includes operations and maintenance of the desalination plant for a period of three years from the start of commercial operations. Ms Olivia Lum, Group CEO of Hyflux, said: “Even though this project is not as sizeable as some of our other projects, we are pleased with our increasing presence in North Africa beyond Algeria.”

Parkson has commissioned a new 2,000 m³/day plant under a Design-Operate-Transfer contract in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia. The plant will serve the residents of the large residential community that supports the Petro-Rabigh oil refinery.

Parkson provided initial design responsibilities for the project which includes grit removal and screening, balancing tanks, denitrification, fine-bubble aeration, submerged hollow-fibre MBRs, and a permeate wet well. The plant, with complete built-in redundancy, includes extensive process controls and 100% monitoring capabilities. Parkson will operate the facility under a six month operation and maintenance contract, with the possibility of longer-term operational responsibilities.

The privately-operated Rabigh Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) will meet Title 22 requirements for unrestricted irrigation. At least 70% of the flow will be used for landscaping irrigation throughout the residential community. The Parkson-designed MBR plant will remove 96-99% of the incoming BOD and operate in an environment which can reach 50°C.

A Cadagua-led consortium has bagged an Omani Riyals 37 million project (Euro 70 million) to build a wastewater treatment plant in Muscat, the capital of Oman. The project was awarded by Haya Water, Oman´s wastewater services company.

The plant will treat up to 50,000 m³/day of wastewater, making it the world’s third-largest wastewater treatment plant using advanced Membrane Bio-Reactor (MBR) technology. The company will work with local partner Galfar Engineering & Contracting SAOG.

This new project is a strategic one for Cadagua, being its first win in Oman and follows the recent award of a contract in the UAE for a desalination plant in the emirate of Ajman.

Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Metrology is working on water- and energy-efficiency labelling, which will form part of a new federal law on water- and energy-efficiency, said H.E. Dr Rashid Ahmad Bin Fahad, Minister of Environment & Water, UAE, responding to a question posed by H20 during a press meet at LG-sponsored Greenomics Conference 2010 in Dubai last month. He also added that the said law is expected to come into force next year.

Under the proposed new dispensation, only products and appliances that conform to UAE’s water- and energy- efficiency standards will be allowed into the country, while those that fail to pass the test will be withdrawn from the market. Most important, the law and the underlying efficiency standards will be applicable across all the emirates.

Examples of water-efficiency labelling schemes include WaterSense in the United States, WaterWise in the UK and Water Efficiency Labelling Scheme (WELS) in Australia and Singapore. Among other things, labelling and standard product information that indicate water and energy consumption can help promote water and energy-efficient products in general and also facilitate their inclusion in public tenders.