- Company signs an $84.3 million contract to develop a facility that will serve the megacity of Neom
- The works also include the construction of an Innovation Centre and a Biosolids Demonstration Centre
Madrid, 16 July 2024. Lantania has been awarded the contract for the construction of a biosolids treatment plant in the town of Al Badaa, located in the Tabuk region of northwest Saudi Arabia. This facility will serve the Neom urban mega-project, which is now under development. The infrastructure, water and energy group has signed an $84.3 million (77.3 million euro) turnkey (EPC) contract with Neom Company for the design, construction and commissioning of a biosolids treatment plant, an Innovation Centre and a Biosolids Demonstration Centre. The execution period for the works is 24 months.
In a joint venture with the Saudi company Tawzea, Lantania will develop a plant to treat sludge from various wastewater treatment plants in the area. The new facility will have a capacity to treat 32,300 kg/day, equivalent to a population of 222,000 inhabitants. The facility will be equipped with the latest technology, the sludge will be dried by means of solar drying and a Sequential Biological Reactor (SBR) will be used for water treatment.
The Innovation Centre will serve to test new wastewater and biosolids treatment and recovery technologies that will be included in Neom’s future developments. This site will have four test benches, two laboratories and space for the location of the different technologies to be assessed.
The Biosolids Demonstration Centre will consist of an architecturally designed visitor centre with exhibition space, reception and viewing areas, test zones, a greenhouse, laboratories and support facilities.
The Al Badaa plant will serve the Neom urban megaproject. This futuristic megacity covering more than 25,660 km² is under construction in the Tabuk region as part of Saudi Arabia’s ‘Vision 2030’ plan, which aims to diversify the country’s economy and reduce its dependence on oil. The project is divided into several phases, with The Line city as its most striking feature: a 170 km long, car-free linear city with high-tech and environmentally sustainable infrastructure.
Lantania’s thrid project in Saudi Arabia
Al Badaa’s plant is the third of Lantania’s projects in Saudi Arabia. Last year, the company completed the construction of the Jubail 3 A desalination plant, one of the world’s largest reverse osmosis seawater desalination plants, which generates 600,000 m3/day of drinking water to supply a population equivalent of 1,600,000 inhabitants, thereby guaranteeing supply to the Eastern, Riyadh and Oassim provinces. This efficiently and sustainably designed desalination plant has achieved a world record for energy efficiency, with a consumption of less than 2.8kWh m3/day using seawater from the Persian Gulf.
Lantania also carried out the design, equipment supply and commissioning of a wastewater treatment plant for the Red Sea project, which is building a tourist city on the west coast of Saudi Arabia. The facility has a capacity to treat 16,000 m3/day of wastewater by means of a lagoon with a surface area of 46 hectares of artificial wetlands that guarantee an adequate amount of water for irrigation.