DEGRÉMONT IN NORTH AFRICA

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Degrémont announced the award of three new contracts in the MENA region.

In Algeria, it will build a 605,000m3/d WTW at Taksebt, about 100km east of Algiers. The Suez Environment subsidiary will design and build the plant and operate it for five years. The Taksebt WTW is part of a larger water transfer scheme, worth around $600 million, awarded to Canada’s SNC Lavalin earlier this year. The second contract is for a 262,500m3/d WTW at Athmania (also in Algeria). The new plant will supply the city of Constantine. The contract is a DBO with five years’ operation. The client is the Constantine branch of Algérienne des Eaux. Funds are being provided by the Islamic Development Bank and construction is expected to take 22 months.

In neighbouring Morocco, the company is to build and operate a WwTP at Marrakech for 1 million population equivalent. The plant will have a daily average dry weather flow of 90,720m3/d, summer daily average flow of 117,950m3/d, and a peak wet weather flow of 184,900m3/d. The plant will be self-sufficient in energy by running on biogas generated from the waste sludge. It will cost $25 million to build, with Degrémont’s share of the contract worth around $11 million. The project is being financed by EIB and the client is the Marrakech Water and Electricity Authority (RADEEMA). The consultant is Switzerland’s SGI Consulting.

Additional WwTPs are planned for the cities of Fès and Meknès. The Fès plant, for which the client is RADEEF, will handle a flow for 1 million pe. A call for tenders for consultants has been launched. The call for bids from contractors to build the plant will be launched once the consultants have prepared the specification and tender documents, probably towards the end of the year.