2005 - 2006 - Pinsent Masons Water Yearbook 2012

FRANCE PART 3 (i): COMPANY ANALYSIS: MAJOR PLAYERS
Colombia
In January 2004, the city of Bogota unilaterally ended the 1997 Saltire WWTW contract, which had
served 1.5 people.
China
Suez has a total of 16 major contracts for rehabilitating and expanding current water treatment works.
Suez now serves approximately 12.9 million people in China via Sino-French Holdings (S-FH), which it
operates jointly with New World Development Co. Ltd. of Hong Kong. Ondeo manages €800 million
per annum of operations in China in 2003, up from €300 million in 2000. Degrémont has completed
132 water and sewage treatment construction contracts in China, having been operating in China
since 1975, and is responsible for 20% of China’s water and wastewater treatment facilities.
2004 Tianjin 35 year O&M, S-FH 0.85 million bulk water supply
The RMB470 million (€57 million) water treatment plant is to serve part of the city of Tianjin. The
Tianjin Tanggu Sino-French Water Supply (S-FH), is a 50:50 joint venture between the city and S-FH.
The facility will have a treatment capacity of 310,000m 3 per day.
2002 Chongqing 50 year concession 700,000 water
2002 Qingdao 25 year BOT 2,300,000 water
Two WTW's in Chongqing are to be refurbished and expanded for a total cost of €150 million. The two
plants can handle 275,000m 3 of water a day and can be expanded by a further 100,000m 3 /day.
Likewise, two WTW's in Qingdao are to be refurbished and expanded for a total cost of €430 million.
The two plants treat 540,000m 3 of water per day.
2001 Panjin 30 year BOT 267,000 bulk water
2001 Xinchang 30 year BOT 135,000 bulk water
2004 Sanya 30 year O&M 300,000 water
Suez and New World Group, via S-FH, operate three water treatment works in Hainan delivering a
total of 230,000m 3 /day of water for €36 million and managing them on behalf of the city. The system
will be 50% held by S-FH and 50% by the municipality’s Hainan Tianya Water Industry Holding Co.
The Sanya contract started in 2004.
2000 Zhengzhou 30 year BMO, S-FH Bulk water supply
2000 Baoding 20 year BMO, S-FH Bulk water supply
The contracts for Zhengzhou (Henan) and Baoding (Hebei) were announced in March 2000. They will
serve a total of 1.7million people, with US$62 million being spent on capital works for facilities
delivering 560,000m 3 of water per day and generating a turnover of US$500 million over the contracts’
life.
1999 Changtu 30 year BMO, S-FH 0.3 million bulk water supply
1999 Wanzhou 30 year BMO, S-FH 0.5 million bulk water supply
1998 Zongshan 22 year BMO, S-FH 1.7 million bulk water supply
The contracts for the provinces of Changtu (Chongqing) and Wanzhou (Liaoning) were formally
awarded in April 2000, and involve a total of US$35 million in capital spending. These contracts will
generate US$400 million in turnover during their lives. Zongshan is in the Guangdong province. The
town and surrounding areas has 1.5 million people. The contract is to seek to provide water by
expanding the current capacity of the two extant plants from 0.7 million m 3 per day to 1.3 million m 3
per day. 66% of the Zongshan contract is held by Sino-French Holdings, with the remainder in
municipal hands. Revenues will be in the region of F100 million per annum. Degrémont carried out
the engineering work and the extended facility entered service in 1999.
1997 Lianjiang 30 year O&M, S-FH 0.3 million bulk water supply
Lianjiang is in the Guangdong Province, with 1.3 million inhabitants, 70% of whom are currently
served with potable water. The project involves US$15 million in Capex for the upgraded potable
water treatment plant, which is being built by Degrémont.
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