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Brazilian oil company Petrobras has awarded a Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies/Enfil joint venture the contract to supply and construct a water treatment and reuse station at a refinery in Pernambuco State.


* Veolia’s share of the contract is €119 million. The facility will provide 2100m3/h of filtered water and 580m3/h of recycled water for industrial use. It is the twelfth project awarded by Petrobras to VWST.

* Storage tank specialist CST Industries has acquired Temcor, Inc., a provider of aluminium domes and specialty covers for water and wastewater applications. CST Industries is owned by private equity investor The Sterling Group, L.P.

* Mark Thurston has replaced Steve Hollinshead as CFO of Cascal N.V. Most recently, Thurston served as UK finance director for Colt Telecommunications.

* SAIC has revealed that it paid $155 million to acquire R.W. Beck earlier this year. The acquisition price includes R.W. Beck’s disaster recovery business.

* Texas-based Headworks Inc. has acquired Hydroxyl Services Inc. of Canada, which provides moving bed bioreactor (MBBR) and integrated fix-film activated sludge (IFAS) technologies to the wastewater industry.

* United Water has signed a five-year contract with the West Basin Municipal Water District in California, covering the O&M of the Edward C. Little water recycling plant and four satellite facilities, with a total combined capacity of 50MGD (189,250m3/d). The contract is estimated to be worth around $8 million per year.

* Veolia Water has beaten off competition to win the $10 million 10-year contract to operate and maintain the 108-mile wastewater collection system serving the City of Woonsocket, RI. Veolia Water already operates the city’s 16MGD (60,560m3/d) WWTP.

* BofA ML, Citi and Goldman Sachs have exercised their over-allotment option on the offering of American Water shares sold by RWE in mid-August. 5.25 million additional shares were purchased at $19.25 per share, meaning that RWE now owns approximately 23.54% of American Water.