Tag: Seawater
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Aquarion acquires Germany’s MFT
Swiss oil and gas industry water systems company, Aquarion Group, has acquired Membran- Filtrations-Technik (MFT) of Germany for an undisclosed sum.
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Texas cities ponder desalination as lawmakers seek to remove legal obstacles
Texas cities McAllen and Edinburg are mulling the construction of a desalination plant to service both cities.
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Abengoa inaugurates West Africa’s first desalination plant
Spain-based energy and environment company Abengoa has inaugurated the first desalination plant in West Africa. The 60,000 m³/d plant will make potable water for some 500,000 people in Ghana’s capital, Accra.
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China begins construction of US$ 1.1billion desalination plant
China has started construction of a CNY 7 billion (US$ 1.1 billion) seawater reverse osmosis desalination project - part of its bid to quadruple its desalination capacity by 2020.
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Veolia-led group refinances Oman project
Oman’s Veolia-led Sharqiyah Desalination Company has refinanced its existing debt of US$ 120.8 million and raised new debt of US$ 42.7 million to fund its expansion of its reverse osmosis water desalination plant at Sur, in the sultanate.
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Mott Macdonald to advise lender in Moroccan dealination project
Banque Marocaine du Commerce Extérieur has appointed consultant, Mott Macdonald, as technical advisor in support of the bank’s role as financer for a MAD 937 million (US$ 94.6 million) desalination project in Morocco.
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Hyflux-led venture wins deal for giant Oman desalination plant
A consortium led by Singapore-based desalination company, Hyflux, has won a contract to build a OMR 100 million (US$ 260 million) seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Oman. The 200 Ml/d independent water project located in Qurayyat, in the Muscat governorate, will be the largest in the sultanate and supply some 17% of its peak…
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Singapore’s PUB draws curtain on algae
Singapore’s national water agency PUB has for the first time installed silt curtains at the waters off Tuaspring and Singspring desalination plants, to protect them from damaging fouling of their reverse osmosis membranes by mounting levels of algae in the water.
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Ras Al Khaimah seawater desalination has algae shield
Northernmost of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Ras Al Khaimah, has opened a 68 Ml/d seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) project in Ghallilah on the emirate’s west coast that is equipped to “overcome the red tide phenomena” – the seasonal proliferation of algae that blights the emirates’ coastline.
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US Navy reverse osmosis nears battle readiness
A prototype reverse osmosis (RO) system developed by the US Navy has successfully completed testing for use in the service’s newest class of warship – littoral combat ships (LCS) – designed for use close to shore.