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Contract awarded

for SOPC water plant

EGYPT ITALIAN firm Cannon Artes has been awarded challenges and calls upon our vast expertise,
a contract to develop a desalination and demin- technology and know-how to realise this mile-
eralisation plant associated with Egypt’s Suez Oil stone facility for the Suez Oil Processing Co.”
Processing Co. (SOPC) refinery. The 300,000 cubic metre plant will treat water
The contract, valued at $31mn, comes as part from the Red Sea and supply it for use in high
of efforts by SOPC to modernise its 68,000 barrel pressure boilers and cooling towers.
per day (bpd) Suez refinery and builds upon a It is expected to be commissioned by the end
previous campaign to facilitate more sustaina- of 2024.
ble practises through reduced energy usage and Artes is known as a leading global engineer-
better energy efficiency. The company received a ing and construction company, often providing
EUR200mn ($214mn) loan from the European wastewater treatment plants to the oil and gas
Bank for Reconstruction and Development industry.
(EBRD). The company has recently been involved in
Cannon Artes CEO Pasquale Punzo said his other similar deals, such as the Tilenga Project,
company would “be responsible for all stages of in the Lake Albert region of Uganda. Artes had
this huge assignment from detailed engineer- been awarded the contract by EPC contractor
ing design, construction and delivery of the McDermott alongside its agreement with SOPC
entire water treatment infrastructure including to provide water treatment solutions to the
pre-commissioning, commission and start-up.” planned Albertine Graben Refining Consortium
He added: “The scope of this major pro- (AGRC) refinery which is expected to be built
ject provides our team unique engineering near Hoima in western Uganda.™

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