Larsen and Toubro (L&T) on Thursday announced that its Water & Effluent Treatment (WET) Business along with Lantania of Spain has signed a contract with ACWA Power, a Middle East based developer. The contract is to build the Ras Mohaisen Desalination plant in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In a regulatory filing, the company said that WET had won the order in a joint venture with Lantania of Spain, wherein it happens to be the lead partner.
Ras Mohaisen Desalination plant will have a capacity of 300,000m /day. The project’s scope includes design, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning of a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant, L&T said, while maintaining, “It encompasses intake and outfall facilities, process units, pumping stations, 600,000 cubic meters potable water storage facility, electrical special facility and associated works along with state-of-the-art automation and instrumentation systems. A Solar PV plant is also part of the project scope.”
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The plant will serve as a drinking water source for Makkah Al-Mukarramah and Al-Baha regions. This is the second desalination order that L&T has received in Saudi Arabia in the recent past.
According to the company, the value of significant order is between Rs 1000 crore and Rs 2500 crore, large orders are worth Rs 2500 crore- Rs 5000 crore, major orders are in the range of Rs 5000 crore- Rs 7000 crore and mega orders are worth above Rs 7000 crore.
L&T is a multinational company engaged in EPC projects, hi-tech manufacturing and services. It operates in over 50 countries worldwide.
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