Veolia Water wins water contract in Bahrain
Posted: 19 April 2006
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French unit Veolia Water, the Water Division of Veolia Environment, has been awarded the contract for the turnkey supply of a new seawater desalination plant in Bahrain.
The contract, worth $336 million was won following an international call for tenders. Start-up of the plant will take place from April 2007, with the first two units, till November 2007.
The plant will have a drinking water production capacity of 273,000 cubic metres per day, making it the largest desalination plant in the world using the thermal process known as multiple effect distillation (MED).
Sidem, a subsidiary of Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies, is the world leader in MED, with more than 370 units built so far. MED is based on the evaporation and condensation of seawater in a series of chambers under vacuum. When water is evaporated in the chambers, the salt content is separated out.
The Bahrain plant will be combined with Al Hidd power plant, from which it will recover the low pressure steam to feed the 10 desalination units.
Each unit has the capacity to produce 27,300 cubic metres per day of drinking water.
Antoine Frérot, Chief Executive Officer of Veolia Water, said: “The new desalination plant in Bahrain is a decisive step for Veolia Water in the recognition of its expertise in thermal desalination using multiple effect distillation, a process in which it is world leader.
“The contract also strengthens Veolia Water's position as a major player in the design and construction of desalination plants and processes in the Middle East for both thermal and reverse osmosis technologies.”
Posted by Editor Offshore Arabia Magazine
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