Scoring a five-year contract for waste management from Oman
Environmental Services Holding Company, Veolia
Middle East intends to reorganize its municipal
collection service and at the same time raise public awareness about the
industry.
Selected to provide for both municipal and industrial
markets in the Sultanate of Oman for the next half-decade, the company was
awarded the package under the auspices of PAEW, the public authority responsible
for water and power supply in eight of Oman’s nine regions.
Veolia Middle East will co-manage water services with Al
Ramooz National Oil & Gas Company LLC of Muscat, whose CEO Ali Al Sahib expressed satisfaction with the arrangement.
“Partners and customers form the main pillar of our success,” Al Sahib said. “We have been constantly examining the market to find new
product and service areas to become involved in … I am very excited.”
The contract focuses on upgrades in facilities management,
including an extension of the sultanate’s drinking water supply — especially smaller
desalination plants in outlying rural areas.
The Veolia Middle
East firm is a subsidiary of Veolia,
which trades on the Paris market as Veolia Environnement SA, a French
transnational company providing drinking water, HVAC management services
and infrastructure support.
Altogether, the contract will allow Veolia to deliver water
services to 2.3 million people — including the capital of Muscat — comprising approximately 70 percent of Oman’s entire population.
