Abengoa has signed contracts to develop a desalination and irrigation project in the Agadir region.
The project, valued at EUR 309M , involves the construction of a desalination plant with a 275,000 m3 total production capacity of desalinated water per day. This will be the largest plant designed for drinking water and irrigation. The contract also provides for the possible capacity expansion of up to 450,000 m3/day.
This is a single project for the two clients- Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau Potable (ONEE), the Ministry of Agriculture, Sea Fisheries and Rural Development and the Ministry of Waters and Forests of Morocco, which has been created from the mutualisation of two projects. The first requires a 50 % expansion of production capacity under the contract that Abengoa has been developing for ONEE, thereby increasing plant capacity to 150,000 m3/d of drinking water. The second project calls for the additional production of 125,000 m3/d of irrigation water, as well as the construction of the corresponding irrigation network for a total of 13,600 ha, promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Abengoa will continue to undertake the engineering, construction and operation and maintenance for a period of 27 years.
