Dec. 18, 2000—Binnie Black & Veatch has begun work on a £5.53 million (U.S. $8 million) consulting contract for studies and conceptual design of facilities to upgrade and expand the existing water supply system and other services for the industrial city of Madinat Al-Jubail Al-Sinaiyah in Saudi Arabia, on the Arabian Gulf.
A hydrocarbon processing center, the city is 100 km north of Dammam. Binnie and Partners designed much of the city�s original water system, including two desalination plants (Desal I and II) between 1978 and 1982.
The current project will include a new 100,000 cubic m/day desalination plant (Desal III), a gas turbine power generation plant producing in the region of 160 MW, a seawater cooling intake, a gas metering station, and a chemical treatment plant.
It also includes the expansion of existing pumping stations and an industrial wastewater treatment plant.
Total construction value of the whole project is expected to be in excess of $350 million.
The Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu awarded the engineering services contract for the expansion to the Pritchard Bassam Radicon consortium, formed by the joint venture partnership of Pritchard-Al Bassam Co. Ltd and Radicon Gulf Consult. The consortium retained Binnie Black & Veatch as a consultant.
