A consortium formed by South Korea’s Samsung Engineering Company Limited, Abu Dhabi financial services firm Invest AD and the United Kingdom’s United Utilities International Limited has been awarded a concession in Bahrain to build and operate a new sewage treatment plant and waste water system.
The project in Muharraq, in the northeast of the capital, Manama, is the first of its kind in the region as it also incorporates a wastewater collection network component. The plant will process 100,000 cubic metres per day and is scheduled to achieve mechanical completion after 30 months.
Samsung Engineering and United Utilities will handle O&M operations for 24 years after completion.
Bahrain’s Ministry of Works and Ministry of Finance awarded the concession following a financial and technical evaluation of six competitive bids submitted in February 2010.
