METITO completes DHS 24 million contract

The project has now been finally commissioned and handed over by METITO through Al Muhairy General Contracting Co. to ADNOC who is responsible for the overall new expansion project that is creating 1300 new homes in Ruwais. Workers employed at ADNOC's Ruwais Refinery Complex will use the new homes.

METITO, which has its headquarters for Europe, Asia and Africa in Sharjah, completed the two-year contract on schedule after commencing work in July 1999. Scope of work for the company on the project included the design and building of the mechanical and electrical components of the sewage treatment plant, pumping stations and a SCADA monitoring system for the project.

The project is the latest in a series of major infrastructure projects that METITO has undertaken in Abu Dhabi Emirate on behalf of Government and Industrial sectors. In Ruwais the main contractor on the project was Al Muhairy General Contracting Co. and the consultant was DMGM.

METITO (Abu Dhabi) LLC, Branch Manager, Mr Omar Al Zoubi, said: " We have been very proud to once again use our infrastructure expertise in both water treatment and waste water systems to help a major development in Abu Dhabi Emirate.
"In a desert environment such as Ruwais we were also determined to ensure that the systems we introduced were environmentally-friendly and that the sewage treatment works were designed to ensure that treated effluent could be used for irrigation purposes in and around the housing complex."

The sewage treatment works installed can handle up to 5000 square metres of effluent every day to cater for the estimated population of 5200 people. A main lift station with four pumps has also been established to collect sewage generated from the new township to be pumped along a 400 metre pipeline to be biologically treated to a quality where treated water can be used for irrigation purposes.

METITO has also introduced a water treatment system where potable water is fed into a 4km network of pipes to supply the 1300 homes. Water is treated using a chlorination system and stored in two giant underground storage tanks which each have a capacity of 2.6 million gallons of water.

The final element of the project was creating a SCADA system - a special software package that can be used for the monitoring at Ruwais of the Sewage Treatment Plant, Water Treatment Plant and Main Lift Station. The SCADA system monitors the entire plant to ensure that the status of the systems is regularly communicated to both the Main Monitoring Station for the housing complex and the Ruwais Refinery.