Spanish firm Acciona won a €14 million contract to operate and maintain two wastewater treatment plants in Mecca

Spanish company Acciona has made further progress in the Saudi operations market by winning a €14 million contract to operate and maintain two wastewater treatment plants in Mecca.

The company will operate the Hadda 1 and Arana 1 plants, which have capacities of 125,000m³/d and 250,000m³/d, respectively, for a period of two years. It won the contract as part of a JV with local company Miahona.

Acciona has now won three contracts in the Gulf region, all in the last three months. In October it was named as joint contractor for the 100,000m³/d SWRO-4 plant in Jubail, and earlier this month it was awarded the DBO contract for a 137,000m³/d expansion at the Fujairah 1 IWPP.

Acciona Agua Middle East director Jesús Sancho told GWI: “The last few months have been extremely successful for our Company in the GCC. We believe that Acciona Agua has a lot to offer to the Middle East and we are delighted to have the chance to prove it and to best serve our customers.”

The client on the new O&M, Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company, has been looking to get involved with as many foreign operators as possible ahead of a long-awaited move towards privatisation in key cities.