Pacific Rubiales in $100m water pact

Water plan: Pacific Rubiales taps RWL for desalination plant

Luke Johnson

 28 August 2012 16:46 GMT

Water solutions provider RWL Water Group has won a $100 million contract from Colombia-focused Pacific Rubiales to design, construct, operate and maintain a produced-water desalination plant in the Rubiales oilfield.

The plant, to be located in the Meta region of Puerto Gaitan, will produce 500,000 barrels of water per day. Under the contract, RWL will run the plant for 10 years through its Nirosoft Industries subsidiary.

The plant will treat flowback from dilling operations in order to meet environmental discharge standards, reducing the need to inject water into deep disposal wells.

The treated water will be used for agricultural purposes, RWL said in a statement.

"This is an exciting win-win project for Pacific Rubiales, providing an innovative, lower cost and sustainable alternative to…

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