Metito
awarded $15 million Egyptian power station contract
Posted: 24 February 2004
Metito, the international water treatment, desalination and wastewater
treatment experts has won an AED56 million (US$15 million) turnkey
contract to provide a range of highly specialised water treatment
schemes for the US$500 million Nubaria Combined Cycle Power Plant
in Egypt.
The plant, located 60 km south of Alexandria will be one of the
largest in Egypt with a total output of 2 x 750 MW. The project
is being undertaken for the Government of Egypt trough the Egyptian
Electricity Holding Co.
Metito is working in partnership with Power Generation Engineering
and Services Co., the local arm of Bechtel, and with whom Metito
has already undertaken a number of major projects in Egypt and elsewhere
in the region. Among these, is the water desalination scheme for
Port Ghaleb leisure development in the south of Egypt on the Red
Sea as well as a demineralised high purity water project for industrial
use in Alexandria.
The scope of work for in the Nubaria project includes design, fabrication,
shop testing, delivery, site installation, testing, commissioning
and start up of a wide range of water and wastewater units for the
power plant. These include pre-treatment of the Nubaria Canal water
(ultimately fed by the River Nile), a range of chemical injection
systems, potable water system, high purity demineralised water,
neutralisation system, oil/water separation, domestic waste and
industrial waste treatment systems for reuse of its effluent for
irrigation.
Metito will also provide both overseas and local training for engineers
and other operating staff of the power plant allowing them to effectively
use and optimise the high tech equipment being put in place.
An essential element of the project will be the extensive use of
membranes technology including Reverse Osmosis, Nano and Ultra Filtration.
These are technologies used by Metito on projects worldwide for
the production of water for a wide range of applications.
Metito Egypt General Manager, Salah El Deghedy said: “As
a world leader in the application of membrane technology, Metito
Egypt and its 300 staff members are very proud to be using this
technique to create the purity of water required at a plant of this
nature and within the other treatment systems at the plant.
We have extensive experience in this sector around the world and
have worked a great deal with companies in range of industrial sectors.
A project of this nature requires highly specialised systems and
equipment to meet the highest international environmental standards
– Standards that are fully met by all Metito projects.”
Metito is the leading international company for the provision of
desalination, water and wastewater treatment projects. Work recently
started on the company’s new global AED50 million headquarters
at Techno-Park in Dubai. When completed the facility will house
500 engineers, scientists, technicians and executives in this strategic
location situated off the main highway between Dubai and Abu Dhabi
in the UAE on an area totalling 500,000 square feet.
For more information see www.metito.com
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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