PORT SAID, Egypt - Green Valley Oil Services (GVOS) has awarded Dutch company Nijhuis Industries an order to deliver a turnkey wastewater treatment plant for the South Port Said Industrial Zone (SPIZ) in Port Said, Egypt.
The 60,000 m3/day project will be delivered under a build-operate-transfer (BOT) arrangement in two phases.
Phase 1 will treat 35,000 m3/day and another 25,000 m3/day of industrial wastewater will be treated after the second phase, which is expected to be in operation in April 2019.
The plant consists of Nijhuis technologies for the physical-chemical, aerobic and anaerobic biological treatment, active sludge and tertiary treatment, to meet the strict effluent requirements, and will also recover as much as possible biogas and energy from the effluent.
Based on the current composition of the wastewater collected from over 250 companies in the Port Said Industrial Zone the plant is being designed to be self-sufficient on its energy demand, but will also sell access power to the grid.
Ahmed Ramadan, chairman and CEO of the GVOS Group, said: “This project marks the new policy of the Egyptian Government to work in public private partnership with industry together to provide a clean and safe environment for the people living in Port Said, the Suez Channel and Mediterranean Sea, avoid environmental pollution, save water and built resilience to the impact of climate change. The fifteen- year BOT contract to operate this wastewater treatment facility is of very big importance to the GVOS Group and builds on our reputation to deliver solutions for environmental challenges.”
Menno M. Holterman, CEO of Nijhuis Industries, added: “For Nijhuis it’s the largest order since the company was founded in 1904, integrating almost all Nijhuis technologies into the most state-of-the-art wastewater treatment facility in Egypt, the Middle East and Africa region with a capacity comparable to treat wastewater of four million PE. Furthermore, it also supports our successful waste-to-value strategy offering turnkey solutions to address the ever-growing demand for larger and more complicated wastewater treatment in emerging countries like Egypt.”
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