Water and Environment Technologies Company (WETICO) announced in a statement that it has successfully awarded two contracts for two Seawater desalination Plants for El Tarf and Bejaia with a capacity of 300,000 m3/day each, with Société Algérienne de Réalisation de Projets Industriels (SARPI) and Entreprise Nationale de Canalisations (ENAC) respectively.

WETICO’s scope will be Design, Engineering, Procurement, Supervision of Construction, testing, and Commissioning. The contract also includes three years of O&M assistance.

These projects, entrusted by the Sonatrach Group, are part of (the Algeria Desalination Program) embarked on by the Algerian Government, which provides investment in the construction of five new seawater desalination plants with a production capacity of 300,000 M3/day per each plant, statement mentioned.