WABAG has been awarded an order for INR 147 Crores by Bihar Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd, under the prestigious Namami Gange scheme (National Mission for Clean Ganga – NMCG) towards design, build and operate 60 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant at Pahari, Patna. The project will be jointly financed by World Bank and NMCG.

WABAG has won a repeat order for INR 83 Crores towards design, build and operation of 124 MLD Water Treatment Plant (WTP) at Rajpur-Sonarpur in Kolkata from Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. The plant will be designed using space saving plate settler technology with rapid gravity filters. The project has been awarded under the AMRUT scheme and includes operation and maintenance of 12 months.

Continuing its success in Oil & Gas sector, WABAG secures an order worth INR 290 Crores from HPCL – Mittal Energy Limited (‘HMEL’) towards design and build of Effluent Treatment Plant at Guru Gobindh Singh Refinery, Bathinda, Punjab. WABAG will provide state of the art total water treatment solution consisting of RWTP, UF-RO, DM and ETP packages.

Commenting on these developments, Mr. Pankaj Sachdeva, CEO – India Cluster said, “I am very happy to note that we are winning projects under the prestigious Namami Gange scheme and from a key client in Oil & Gas sector. These wins bear testimony to WABAG’s technological capabilities and continued customer confidence.”

WABAG was recently awarded the contract for the plant retrofit and upgrade with a value of USD 60 million together with a JV partner. The La Mesa-2 WTP produces 900,000 m³ of water per day and is one of three Metro Manila drinking water plants, which ensure the safe supply of clean water to the megacity. The plant will be refurbished and receive a technical upgrade during continuous operation over the course of the next 3 years.

WABAG Philippines won the contract for the retrofit, rehabilitation and upgrade of the large-scale La Mesa 2 water treatment plant in Quezon City in October 2017. The plant produces 900,000 m³/d for around five million people in the Manila metropolis and the project, which has a total contractual value of USD 60 million, will be realized together with a local civil JV partner.

The Angat River is the largest and most important water source for Metro Manila. The water is stored in reservoirs and then treated in the La Mesa 1 &2 and Balara plants to make it potable. The plants employ four main treatment steps consisting of coagulation/flocculation, sedimentation, filtration and disinfection. However, over the years, the technology employed at La Mesa-2 WTP has become outdated and therefore requires refurbishment and modernisation. The resultant project also foresees additional features such as the handling of high raw water turbidity (2,000 NTU) and a structure capable of withstanding a 7.2 magnitude earthquake.

During continuous plant operation, WABAG will convert the existing pre-treatment technology (Pulsator) into modern lamella clarification and single-layer sand filtration will be modified to provide highly effective dual media filtration. The scope of supply includes design and engineering, equipment, installation and commissioning. After completion, which is scheduled for the end of 2020, WABAG will also be responsible for process proving for one year.

Founded in 2011, during the past seven years WABAG Philippines has completed a series of national water technology projects, including seven wastewater treatment plants. The La Mesa-2 WTP is the second project in the drinking water treatment field to be obtained following the refurbishment and upgrading of the Putatan WTP with a capacity of 150,000 m³/d using advanced WABAG filtration technology. Furthermore, the company has been commissioned by the Manila Water Company (MWC) to build and run a pilot plant for the Philippines’ first septic waste to energy (WTE) project. The WTE facility, which has already undergone successful testing, utilizes septage or waste materials removed from septic tanks, as a feed source.

Coleridge Shelley, the WABAG Philippines CEO: “We are very happy that our client, Maynilad Water Services Inc., has awarded this ambitious project to WABAG. As a technology leader we were able to provide an individual and optimal technological solution based on our comprehensive, multinational experience and the support of our international team of top technical experts.”

WABAG Water Services SRL, Romania, a subsidiary of the Vienna-based VA TECH WABAG GmbH, has built a new and innovative plant for eco-friendly treatment of the produced water resulting from oil production for the country’s largest oil and gas group. A tailor-made process design has been realised, which represents the first plant with a combination of biological treatment and filtration processes for this application. The official opening took place in July 2017 in the course of a celebratory.

The plant serves the largest oilfields of the operated by OMV Petrom Group in in Romania, with an output of up to 700 t/d crude oil as of September 2017. However, it is not just oil that is pumped to the surface. As a by-product, every barrel is accompanied by ten to twelve times larger volume of water. This produced water contains oil and, among other substances, a significant amount of residual hydrocarbon compounds, which means that it must be subjected to appropriate treatment.

Dedicated to the environment

The international OMV Group with headquarters in Vienna is dedicated to a responsible approach to the environment and therefore implements a series of important protection measures. At the Suplacu oil field, the company has invested a two-digit million Euro amount in the construction of a highly modern Produced Water Treatment Plant.

Innovative: a tailor-made plant with new process design

The WABAG experts have designed an innovative, multi-stage treatment system and have thereby redefined the state-of-the-art. In the past, technology suppliers confined themselves to conventional chemical and physical process steps, but now for the first time, a biological process is being utilized for produced water treatment plant.

The implementation of the new process on the large customer’s plant having a capacity of 8,000 m³/d was preceded by on-the-spot pilot testing over several months. The results of all the test series showed that the required parameters could definitely be maintained.

Overall, the facility incorporates several components and treatment steps. These consist of storage and settlement tanks, dissolved-air-flotation (DAF), a cooling tower that reduces the temperature from 55°C to 35°C, biological treatment based on the activated sludge process, lamella clarifiers, two-layer filtration with flocculation and coagulation and activated carbon filtration, as well as sludge dewatering. A service water station and a fire-fighting system are also included.

From one single source

As the general contractor, WABAG was responsible for the design & engineering, construction, delivery, installation and commissioning of this essential project. Commissioning started at the beginning of 2017 and was completed earlier this year with successful trial operation. All the criteria of the stricter conditions for direct discharge were met without difficulty.

For WABAG, this project represents an important reference in the oil production segment of the oil and gas industry. For around ten years, the company has proven to be a reliable partner to OMV Petrom SA in Romania, having already successfully completed projects for the modernization of the effluent treatment plant at the Petrobrazi refinery. At the same time, WABAG has also provided the operational management for the facility since 2008.

Erwin Mötz, the CEO of WABAG Water Services SRL, Romania, remarked on the occasion of the opening of the new plant: “We have developed a wide range of competencies for industrial systems in Romania, above all, in the field of oil and gas and we are especially proud of the successful completion of the ambitious Suplacu project. This important reference will help us to transfer our know-how and experience to other markets and regions. In particular, we see considerable potential in the upstream sector.”

Bags INR 386 Crore (> EURO 50 million) Sewage Treatment Plant Order from BWSSB

WABAG won a INR 386 Crore (> EURO 50 million) Design, Build and Op.erate order from the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) for a 150 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) at K&C Valley in Bengaluru. WABAG will design and build this plant to meet the recent stringent guidelines of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) policy mechanism. The plant will be designed based on Activated Sludge Process with Biological Nutrient Removal System and Power Generation. Post construction of the STP, WABAG will also operate and maintain the plant for a period of 10 years. This plant will help to protect and improve upon the natural environmental resources in the vicinity of Bellandur Lake in Bengaluru.

Commenting on this development, Mr. Pankaj Sachdeva, CEO – India Cluster said, “It is very heartening to win repeat orders and this repeat order fram BWSSB is another feather in our cap showcasing our technological prowess and the customer’s confidence in us.”

WABAG has won an order from Dangote Oil Refining Company in Nigeria for a value of about US$ 105.5 million. Dangote Oil Refining Company is the largest single train petroleum refinery in the world. This is the second direct order for WABAG from Dangote after the raw water treatment plant order for Dangote Fertilizers which is in an advanced stage of execution. Dangote Group is the largest industrial conglomerate in West Africa. WABAG’s scope of work includes Design, Engineering, Procurement, Supervision of Installation and Commissioning & Testing of an effluent treatment plant with reverse osmosis, demineralization & condensate polishing and raw water treatment package.

Following successful pilot testing, the Kloten Opfikon (AKO) wastewater treatment plant decided to enlarge its facility based on the Nereda® process and has commissioned WABAG Water Technology Ltd. in Winterthur in autumn 2016 with the realisation of the project, which has a value of more than EUR 8 million. The capacity of the existing plant is to be increased from 65,000 to 125,000 p.e. but does not require any additional area. This space- and cost-saving expansion is possible through the employment of aerobic granulated activated sludge using the Nereda® system, as this high-performance process can be easily integrated into the existing activation tanks. WABAG is the sole supplier of Nereda® in Switzerland.

ProRheno AG has awarded to WABAG Water Technology Ltd. in Winterthur the expansion of the Basel wastewater treatment plant by means of an additional treatment stage for micropollutant removal. This contract was awarded in May 2016. The operator of one of the country’s largest WWTP’s has thus reacted quickly to Switzerland’s new water conservation legislation, which defines the elimination rates for organic trace substances. WABAG has established itself as an expert for these special requirements and will apply to the Basel plant a combined process using ozonation followed by PAC dosing and tertiary deep bed filtration (BIOZONE® – PACOPUR®). The start-up of this EUR 7.5 million contract is scheduled in 2021.

The New Year 2017 started on a pleasant note for VA TECH WABAG Ltd. with award of the contract for Operation & Maintenance services of the 20,000 m3/d desalination plant at the Sohar International Port Complex in Oman. The plant was built by WABAG in 2013 and employs the most modern membrane technologies. WABAG will now assume responsibility for the operational management for a period of six years. The contract value amounts to over Euro 11 million.