Veolia Water Technologies Gulf, the local unit of French utility giant Veolia, announced on Tuesday that it has been awarded a contract by Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al-Kharafi & Sons (Al-Kharafi) to supply, supervise, install and commission 53 packaged sewage treatment plants across Kuwait.

The company said in a press statement that its AnoxKaldnes Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) packaged plants would compensate for sewage handling shortages and enable 40,000 cubic metres/day of treated water to be reused for irrigation, therefore saving freshwater that would otherwise have been desalinated at high cost.

The statement said 23 package plants with a total treatment capacity of 17,000 m3/day will be added to existing sewage treatment installations in Sabah Al Ahmad City in Khiran. In West Abdullah City, new sewage treatment installations will be built and will include 27 package plants totalling 23,000 m3/day. Finally, three more units will be installed as provisional items at other locations.

The first units will be delivered early in 2021, with all 53 units delivered in 12 months.

The advantages of a packaged plant include reduced size of the network compared to centralised wastewater treatment, lower capital costs and greater flexibility, the statement said,

Veolia also supply pretreatment, UV disinfection, clarification and tertiary treatment technologies as part of the contract while its digital solution Hubgrade will support the operational teams in their daily monitoring with data-driven service and remote reporting.

Thierry Froment, CEO of Veolia Water Technologies Middle East, said: "2020 has proven a very challenging year in many aspects, but it has also brought us some great successes. After having worked on the Sulaibiya WWTP Expansion Project, we are honored to have been chosen by Al-Kharafi once again and we look forward to continuing our successful collaboration."

The statement didn't disclose the contract value.

(Writing by Syed Ameen Kader; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)

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