France-based Suez Environnement via its Omani subsidiary Sita Al Basheer has won a €32-million ($37 million) contract to design, build and operate the expansion of the municipal landfill facility in Muscat, Oman, for five years.

Sita Al Basheer will build the new cell of the landfill facility for Al Amerat’s non-hazardous solid municipal waste generated by the city of Muscat. The new facility will include a biogas recovery system and a reverse osmosis plant for treating leachates, allowing the city of Muscat to curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve its environmental performance.

This project is a continuation of the first landfill cell with a capacity of 250,000 tonnes of waste a year in operation since 2010 on the same site by Sita Al Basheer. This new contract will increase the landfill’s capacity to 400,000 tonnes a year.

Marie-Ange Debon, deputy chief executive officer of Suez Environnement in charge of the international division, said: “This new contract demonstrates the Oman authorities’ confidence in developing long-term solutions for their waste treatment needs. It recognises our ability to build and operate efficient facilities to meet the dual challenge of population growth and environmental protection.”

This contract strengthens Suez Environnement’s presence in Oman where it has been supporting local authorities in water management for many years, notably by the Barka II desalination plant (120,000 cu m water a day), and in waste management since 2010, a statement said.

The Muscat landfill site at Al Amerat is Suez Environnement’s second waste treatment facility in the sultanate.

The group has also just won through Sita Al Basheer a two-year contract to operate the landfill facility at Nizwa which takes all the non-hazardous municipal waste in the Dakhiliyah region. With a capacity of 150,000 tonnes a year, this facility has been designed to the most stringent environmental standards. – TradeArabia News Service