ACCIONA will operate four wastewater treatment plants in Egypt over the next two years for 7 million euros

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ACCIONA will operate and maintain four wastewater plants in different sites in Egypt over the next two years following an agreement signed on 10 October between the company and the Egyptian authorities. The contract is for approximately 7 million euros.

ACCIONA will undertake the rehabilitation of these facilities, located at Abnoub-El Fath (80.000 m3/d), Sodfa-El Ghanayem (30.000 m3/d), El Ayat (30.000 m3/d) and Abu Simbel (6.000 m3/d), all built in 2007. It will also carry out their supply and start-up, as well as the operation and maintenance of the four plants, under the terms of an agreement signed with the National Organization for Potable Water and Sanitary Drainage (NOPWASD).

The treated wastewater will exceed 140,000 m3/day when the four plants are at full capacity. It will be used mainly for agricultural irrigation, increasing the level of water reuse in the country. With these projects, ACCIONA advances in the objectives of its Sustainability Master Plan, in this case, in the efficient use of water from the Nile.

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ACCIONA awarded road extension project in Australia

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A consortium led by ACCIONA, together with local companies, has been awarded the contract to extend Stephenson Avenue, one of the main arteries in the City of Stirling; around 10 km north of Perth’s central business district (the capital of Western Australia) along the Mitchell Freeway.

The AU$191 million (€121 million) project, called the “Stephenson Avenue Extension”, will provide a new connection from the freeway to other major arteries, the industrial area of Osborne Park and the Westfield Innaloo Shopping Centre, as well as creating 800 jobs.

It is part of a wider plan to transform the Stirling City Centre, providing a new strategic link and opening up large tracts of currently vacant land suitable for development. It also complements recently completed projects in the area designed to improve connectivity such as the Mitchell Freeway southbound widening works from Cedric Street to Vincent Street and Northbound Mitchell Freeway widening from Hutton Street to Cedric Street.

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ACCIONA to develop its fourth wastewater treatment plant in Ecuador

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EMAPAG, the municipal water and sewerage company of Guayaquil (Ecuador), has awarded ACCIONA the construction of the ‘Los Merinos’ wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in the north of the city. The project, which includes the ‘Progreso’ wastewater pumping station, is valued at US$160 million (€140 million) and is financially backed by the World Bank. The plant, which will serve 1.5 million people, is expected to take 42 months to complete.

The WWTP will include advanced wastewater treatment and sludge treatment processes and will have a capacity of 4 m³/s. The facility will help eliminate unpleasant odors in the area and therefore improve its environmental surroundings. 

In 2019, ACCIONA completed, also for EMAPAG, the construction of the ‘La Pradera’ pumping station as part of the future ‘Las Esclusas’ WWTP in Guayaquil, which replaces the previous pumping station and contributes to modernizing the city’s water purification network.

The project, financed by the European Investment Bank and executed by ACCIONA on a turnkey basis, had a budget of US$25 million (€22 million). The scheme is part of a program to provide universal sanitary sewerage services for one million people – a third of the total population of Guayaquil – from the center to the south of the city.

ACCIONA has designed and constructed more than 330 wastewater treatment plants worldwide, with an overall capacity of 22.3 million m³ per day, the equivalent of serving a population of more than 80 million inhabitants.

The ‘Los Merinos’ plant is ACCIONA’s fifth water treatment scheme and fourth wastewater treatment plant in Ecuador, where the company first opened its local office in 2012. This new contract strengthens ACCIONA’s position as one of the leading players in Ecuador’s water infrastructure sector and in large wastewater treatment schemes in Latin America.

In 2018, an ACCIONA-led consortium was selected to build the Loja WWTP, a turnkey contract valued at US$16.6 million (€13.4 million), with financing from the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF). The treatment plant, now completed and in initial operations, has a maximum hydraulic capacity of 1.45 m3/s and will serve a population of up to 350,000 inhabitants.

ACCIONA is also leading the consortium responsible for the US$40 million (€35 million) construction, expansion and improvement of water collection and purification systems in Esmeraldas, in the north of the country. The project, which will serve a population of more than 200,000 people, is a turnkey contract financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and includes a water treatment plant and an electrical substation.

ACCIONA also completed in 2017 the Ibarra WWTP, also in the north of the country, which has a capacity of 43,200 m³ per day. This facility is in operation serving a population equivalent to 200,000 people. The WWTP was designed following a rigorous environmental protection plan through an advanced biological purification system.

In addition to its ample experience in the water business, ACCIONA is also building one of the Ecuadorian capital’s most emblematic projects, the construction of the second phase of the Quito metro. This contract is worth US$1.54 billion (€1.4 billion).

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ACCIONA to build and operate three sewage treatment plants in Saudi Arabia for €855 million

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ACCIONA, along with its local partners Tawzea and Tamasuk, has been awarded the financing, construction and 25-year operation of the Madinah-3, Buraydah-2 and Tabuk-2 sewage treatment plants in Saudi Arabia.

These new contracts, awarded by the state-owned Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC), are worth a combined US$1 billion (€855 million).

These are the first BOOT/EPC (Build, Own, Operate and Transfer / Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contracts that ACCIONA has signed in the area of wastewater treatment in the Middle East.

The Madinah-3 wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) will be located in Medina, the fourth most populated city in Saudi Arabia with more than 1.1 million inhabitants, and will have a capacity of 200,000 m3/day (expandable to 375,000 m3/day) to treat urban wastewater. ACCIONA will be responsible for the facility’s development, design, financing, construction, operation and maintenance for 25 years.

The group will also build 23 kilometers of recycled water collectors for irrigation, three storage tanks and the respective pumping stations.

The Buraydah-2 (150,000 m3/day) and Tabuk-2 (90,000 m3/day) sewage treatment plants are located in rural areas in the central and northern regions of the country, respectively, and will serve one million inhabitants.

ACCIONA will develop, design, finance, construct and operate these two facilities for 25 years and will also build 34 kilometers of recycled water collectors for Buraydah-2 and another 28 kilometers of collectors for Tabuk-2.

The three plants will each have a collection well and pumping station, pretreatment installation, biological reactor, sludge line, and recycled water pumping station.

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ACCIONA will build its fifth desalination plant in Saudi Arabia for $384 million

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The Saudi publicly-owned Corporation Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has awarded ACCIONA, and its partner RTCC, the design and construction of the Shuqaiq 1 desalination plant on the Red Sea coast in Saudi Arabia. The contract amount awarded is US $384 million.

The plant, equipped with reverse osmosis technology, will have a daily capacity of 400,000 m3/day. It will help to improve the supply of drinking water and offset water shortages in south-west Saudi Arabia by providing a new source of potable water.

The project includes the marine works, the civil works on the plant, the supply and installation of electromechanical and electrical equipment, start-up and pre- and post-treatment systems the start up and commissioning

The facility, which is expected to be completed in 2023, is ACCIONA´S fifth desalination plant built in the country and the third awarded to the company by SWCC. As Mohamed Sebbane, Head of ACCIONA’s Water Division in Saudi Arabia, says: “Working with SWCC for the third time is an honor and a great satisfaction, and at the same time it is a challenge to continuously improve our delivery”.

ACCIONA has become one of the main water infrastructure companies in one of the areas of the planet that suffers the highest levels of water stress. According to “World Water Development Report 2019”, the Middle East is currently the world region with the severest water shortages. While the average availability of water worldwide is 7,453 m3 per capita per year, in the Middle East this figure falls to 736 m3, according to the latest figures available from Aquastat.

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Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) awarded ACCIONA and its partner RTCC to build $500m desalination plant in Saudi Arabia

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The Saudi publicly-owned company Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has awarded ACCIONA and its partner RTCC the construction of the Al Khobar 2 desalination plant at Khobar, on the east coast of Saudi Arabia around 400 kilometres from Riyadh. It is a turnkey contract valued at around $500 million (€460 million).

It will be one of the largest in the country, with a capacity of 600,000 m³ per day to serve a population of three million

The facility will be equipped with reverse osmosis technology and a daily capacity of more than 600,000 m³, making it one of the biggest in the country and the largest RO plant under EPC scheme awarded in a single shot in KSA. It will provide a service to three million people in the area. ACCIONA thus consolidates its presence in the water treatment sector in Saudi Arabia, a country in which it currently has three projects under way.

Last year, a €750-million contract was awarded for the financing, design, construction, operation and maintenance (for 25 years) of the Shuqaiq3 desalination plant. Located in the south-west of the country on the Red Sea coast, it is expected to be completed sometime in 2021 and will have a  treatment capacity of 450,000 m³ per day to provide a service to a population equivalent of two million. It will also be equipped with a photovoltaic plant to reduce internal energy consumption.

In July 2018, a contract was also awarded for around €200 million to build and commission the Al Khobar 1 desalination plant (capacity: 210,000 m³/day). It is located close to the Al Khobar 2 plant and serves a population of 1,000,000.

The company has also designed and built the Al Jubail RO4 seawater desalination plant in the east of the country for the utility Marafiq. With a capacity of 100,000 m³ per day, it serves both the city and the nearby industrial complex.

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