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FCC Aqualia
is awarded
four contracts in Mexico and Chile
worth a total of
108 million euros
FCC Aqualia, the water management com-
pany of the Citizen Services Group, bols-
ters its positioning in Latin America after
winning four new contracts: two in Mexi-
co and another two in Chile. The awarded
contracts, achieved through the company’s
subsidiary, Aqualia Infraestructuras, conso-
lidate its diversification, since they are rela-
ted to supply and purification operations for
the mining and petrochemical industries.
With these new contracts, valued at EUR
108 million, this FCC subsidiary further
strengthens its position in these two cou-
ntries, in which it has already undertaken
important projects in recent years. For FCC
Aqualia, these projects represent “another
step forward in the company’s diversifica-
tion and they are proof of our know-how
and capacity to take on challenges of diver-
se natures: providing water services to both
the general population and to industry”.
Cutzamala
The Cutzamala (Mexico) project faces the
challenge of expanding their supply grid
with another line in order to guarantee the
supply of drinking water to areas on the
outskirts of Mexico City. The system cu-
rrently has a capacity to deliver 20 cubic
metres of drinking water per second, ma-
king it the largest in Latin America.
Over the next two and a half years, FCC
Aqualia, working in alliance with the Her-
mes Infraestructura group, will handle the
construction of a steel pipeline measuring
2.3 metres in diameter, which will cover a
distance of 18 kilometres. The contract is
worth some 66 million Euros.
Río Mezcalpa
On another front, the Mexican corporation,
Pemex, through its subsidiary, Pemex Gas,
and Petroquímica Básicas, has awarded
FCC Aqualia the project for renovation work
on the intake system in the Mezcalpa River,
in the state of Tabasco, which is used to
supply water to the Cactus and Nuevo Pe-
mex gas processing centres. A budget of
15 million Euros has been allocated to this
project, which involves completely renova-
ting the mechanical, electrical and automa-
tion systems, as well as the control mea-
sures for the collection and intake of water,
with an installed capacity of 3.6 m
3
/sec., in
addition to enhancing the civil engineering
work.