Siemens awarded €12 million

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Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) has received an order from

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, to supply and install a pumping station for a potable water project in

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The project includes the entire electrical and hydromechanical equipment as well as a glass fibre network for data transmission. The final customer is the state-owned Agence Nationale des Barrages (ANB). The contract is worth around €12 million and the new pumping station is scheduled to start operating in the summer of 2007.

On behalf of ANB, SNC Lavalin is building a water transfer system consisting of a water treatment plant with a daily capacity of 600,000 cubic metres, a pumping station in Taksebt, four water tunnels and a water pipeline.

In Taksebt, the water of an artificial lake which bears the same name and contains around 100 million cubic metres will be treated and transported along the 100 kilometre pipeline to the central Algerian coastal region from 2007 onwards. The installations will be used to supply the provinces Tizi Ouzou, Draâ Ben-Khedda and Boudouaou as well as the capital, Algiers.