Category: Projects
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Namibian uranium mine ponders desalination project
Namibian uranium mining firm Rössing Uranium is investigating the economic viability of designing, constructing and operating a new desalination plant to supply its operation in the economically important Erongo Region where water is scarce.
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GdF Suez wins Abu Dhabi power and water deal
GdF Suez has signed a 25-year power and water purchase agreement with Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Company for the Mirfa independent water and power project which includes a new 136,380 m3/d seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant.
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Trinidad and Tobago remain on dry alert despite desalination upgrade completion
Trinidad and Tobago remain under a dry spell alert as a completed upgrade at the desalination plant in Point Lisas takes up to two months to provide fully its increased capacity.
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Osmoflo wins US$ 15m wastewater reuse contract
Water and wastewater firm, Osmoflo, has won a US$ 15 million contract for the design, construction and commissioning of a wastewater treatment plant in northern Western Australia to produce reclaimed water for use in irrigation.
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Barclays backs US$ 43 million Biwater British Virgin Islands project
Barclays Corporate and Investment Banking has awarded a two-tranche, US$43 million finance facility to Biwater to fund the construction of a seawater desalination, water storage and wastewater plant on Tortola – the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands.
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Oman desalination firm hits 90% Omani target for manager posts
Oman’s Al Ghubra Power and Desalination Company has achieved its target of filling 90% of its managerial posts with Omani nationals according to chief executive officer Ali Al Raisi.
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Bluefield analyst joins fracking reuse advisory group
Bluefield Research analyst, Erin Bonney Casey, has been selected to join the WateReuse Foundation’s project advisory committee on current use and trends of reuse in the hydraulic fracturing industry.
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Australian advisor urges government desalination sell off
Australia’s Productivity Commission, in a recent report, has urged the country’s state and federal governments to sell off a swathe of infrastructure assets including desalination plant.
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Veolia-led firm to expand Sur desalination plant in Oman
Oman’s Sharqiyah Desalination Company has signed an agreement to expand the 80,000 cubic metres a day Sur desalination plant.
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Russian heavy oil recovery enhanced by water reuse
OPERATED BY Russia’s second largest oil producer, a heavy oil field in northwest Russia has been increasing the volume of crude processing with technology that supports enhanced recovery rates and reduced environmental impact. In 2008, they took the first steps to develop a less water-intensive way of processing produced water by conducting a feasibility study…