Under the $22m five-year renewal agreement, Veolia will continue to operate, maintain and manage the commission’s drinking water treatment plants.
Veolia North America and minority partner Khafra Engineering will operate and maintain the facilities. The commission will continue to own all drinking water assets and maintain rate-setting authority.
Veolia said it has operated the regional surface-water filtration plant, raw water pump station and maintained associated reservoirs since 1990.
On behalf of AFCWRC, the company expanded treatment capacity from 30 MGD to 90 MGD, with a maximum capacity of 135 MGD. It resulted in $25m savings since 1990.
Apart from the commission’s partnership renewal, Veolia has also secured a contract for water treatment for Petrofac’s Rabab Harweel project in Oman.
Veolia will support the engineering and supply of water treatment systems for the project in the south of Oman, which Petrofac is managing on behalf of Petroleum Development Oman.
The project features sour gas processing plants and associated gathering and injection systems, and export pipelines.
It handles the production of oil and gas from the Harweel oil reservoirs through Miscible Gas Injection and the production of gas with condensate from the Rabab reservoir through partial recycling of sour gas.
The contract requires Veolia to provide treated water for different applications such as boiler feed, potable water and service water.
Veolia is also involved in several other projects in Oman. It recently announced the extension of the Sur desalination plant 160 km southwest of Muscat.
After completion, the plant will supply drinking water to approximately 600,000 residents.
