Alkhorayef Water Solutions AWS, fully owned and run under AWPT, provides integrated solutions in the water sector via supply, erection, and commissioning of water systems to municipalities and major governmental and private clients throughout the kingdom. AWS carries many exclusive agreements for sale and distribution of international manufacturers while leveraging AWPT’s experienced staff, strong presence in the market and excellent rapport with municipalities throughout the kingdom

1. Water Segment

AWPT designs, constructs, operates, maintains and manages across the Kingdom all types of water projects, such as water treatment plants, water networks, and related pumping and lifting stations. 

1. Water Supply and Treatment

AWPT’s water supply and treatment activities consist of building, operating and maintaining deep water wells and treatment plants.

1. 1. Deep water wells 

AWPT provides Project Services for deep water wells, which encompass probing, assessment of –aquifer properties, full design, well drilling, casing and full component supply, installation and commissioning. 

As of 31 December 2019G, AWPT drilled, operated and maintained over 924 wells throughout the Kingdom, with over 1,100,000 m3/day of aggregate potable water supply, including deep water wells in Central Region (in Riyadh Province), North and West Region (Hail, Tabuk, Makkah, and Madinah), Eastern Region (Dammam), South Region (Jizan) and Qassim Region. 

1. 2. Treatment plants

AWPT provides the Project Services for water treatment plants, including engineering, procurement and construction of large capacity and centralized brackish water reverse osmosis plants, serving water needs on regional and city level, with the most recent project being the construction of two reverse osmosis desalination plants for Air Defence in Jeddah.

AWPT has rehabilitated and currently provides O&M Services for brackish water treatment plants across the Kingdom, including the Central Region (in Riyadh province), North and West region (Hail, Tabuk, Makkah, and Madinah), Eastern region (Dammam), South Region (Jizan) and Qassim Region. AWPT has overall responsibility of operating and maintaining one of the largest brackish water treatment plants in the Kingdom that is located in the Hail Region, with a capacity of 160,000 m3/day. Other major projects for brackish water treatments plants include Afifi Dawadmi Shamel Water treatment plant with a total capacity of 50,000 m3/day, Buraidah Water treatment plant with capacity of 172,000 m3/day, Onaizah water treatment plant with capacity of 49,500 m3/Day, Muznib water treatment plant with capacity of 16,500 m3/day, and Zulfi water treatment plant with capacity of 14,000 m3/day.

2. Water Networks

AWPT’s water networks activities consist of building, operating and maintaining water distribution networks and firewater networks.

1. 1. Water Distribution Networks 

AWPT provides Project Services for water distribution networks, encompassing the engineering, procurement, execution, commissioning, upgrading and rehabilitating of such networks. It also provides O&M Services for such networks. 

Water distribution networks’ projects include large scale pumping stations, underground tunnelling, auxiliary systems, potable water connections, and full metering and billing systems. As of 31 December 2019G, AWPT operated and managed over 6,600 km of water networks and related pumping stations across the Kingdom, serving over 15 million inhabitants. Such projects include:

• • • Hail Water Network project, which involves operating and maintaining of over 2,500 km of drinking water networks and serving 17 cities and towns in the Hail Region;
    • Riyadh Metro Project, which involves design, procurement, installation, rehabilitation and relocation of over 70 km of critical utility and infrastructure in Riyadh;
    • Riyadh Area Drinking Water Network Group 2 and Riyadh Area Drinking Water Network Group 3, which involve operating and maintaining of over 18 km of drinking water networks, including pumping stations, providing water to the vast majority of the Riyadh Province suburbs; 
    • Madinah Al Munawara Villages Water Network, Madinah East and West Water Network Project, which involve operating and maintaining of over 100 km of drinking water network and its pumping stations, and providing water to over 800,000 of Madinah inhabitants; and
    • Aljouf Water Networks Project, which involves operating and maintaining of over 300 km of water network and providing water to over 500,000 inhabitants in Aljouf.

1. 2. Firewater Networks 

AWPT provides Project Services for firewater networks, which include engineering, procurement, execution, and commissioning. It also provides O&M Services for firewater networks, including operating and maintaining full firewater systems, including main and auxiliary fire networks, fire pumps, fire hydrants, integrated building fire protection systems, and fire alarm systems.

AWPT currently performs the operation and maintenance of fire hydrants, networks and pumping station in the industrial city of Jubail for Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu (RCJY).

2. Wastewater Segment

AWPT designs, constructs, operates, maintains and manages across the Kingdom all types of wastewater projects, such as sewage and industrial wastewater treatment plants, wastewater networks, and related pumping and lifting stations.

1. Wastewater Treatment 

AWPT’s wastewater treatment activities consist of building, operating and maintaining sewage wastewater treatment plants and industrial wastewater treatment plants.

1. 1. Sewage Wastewater Treatment Plants

AWPT provides Project Services for sewage wastewater treatment plants, which include design, construction, upgrade and rehabilitation of sewage wastewater treatment plants. It also provides O&M Services, including operations and maintenance of advanced large-scale plants, serving a critical role in municipalities objectives while complying with environmental regulations.

As of 31 December 2019G, AWPT constructed over 400,000 m3/day combined capacity of sewage wastewater treatment plants and operated and maintained plants with a combined capacity exceeding 1,600,000 m3/day throughout the Kingdom, including in Riyadh, Qassim, Dammam, Makkah and Madinah. Such projects include:

• • • O&M Services for Dammam Sewage Treatment Plant with a peak capacity exceeding 470,000 m3/day and serving over 1 million residents;
    • Project Services for Albukaryah Sewage Treatment Plant with peak capacity of 56,000 m3/day and Almuthnab Sewage Treatment Plant with a peak capacity of 16,000 m3/day, both serving the Al-Qassim Region;
    • O&M Services for Hadda and Arana Sewage Treatment Plants in Makkah area, each plant with a peak capacity of 500,000 m3/day; and
    • O&M Services for Zulfi Sewage Treatment Plant in Al Qassim Region with a peak capacity of 12,000 m3/day.

1. 2. Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plants

AWPT provides turnkey solutions in Project Services, encompassing the engineering, procurement, execution, commissioning, upgrading and rehabilitating of industrial wastewater treatment plants. It also provides O&M Services, operations and maintenance of advanced large-scale industrial wastewater treatment plants. AWPT provides a wide range of optimal solutions extending from highly effective pre-treatment to complete nutrient-removal for industrial waste water treatment plants. 

Such projects include for example the Project Services and O&M Services for the Alkharj Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant for MODON with peak capacity of 16,000 m3/day. 

2. Wastewater Networks

AWPT’s wastewater networks activities consist of building, operating and maintaining wastewater networks and treated sewage effluent networks.

1. 1. Wastewater Networks

AWPT provides Project Services for wastewater distribution networks, large scale lifting stations, underground tunnelling, auxiliary systems, and wastewater connections. The Services encompass engineering, procurement, execution, commissioning, upgrading and rehabilitating the networks. It also provides O&M Services, including operations and maintenance of wastewater networks.

As of 31 December 2019G, AWPT provided the Project Services and O&M Services for over 3,000 km of wastewater networks throughout the Kingdom. Its wastewater networks projects include the following:

• • • Project Services for Sewage Network in Aziziyah, consisting of 5.75 km of pipelines, including 3.50 km of micro tunnelling, with all related heavy civil works;
    • Project Services for Sewage Network in Laban, consisting of 33.45 km of pipelines, 1,150 house connections and 383 manholes, with all other related heavy civil works;
    • Project Services for Sewage Network in Tawaiq, consisting of 28.41 km of pipelines, 1,650 house connections and 270 manholes, with all other related heavy civil works; and
    • Project Services for Buraidah Sewage Network and Pump Stations, consisting of 130 km of pipelines, 16,000 house connections, 1.5 km of micro tunnelling, 2,992 manholes and three main pump stations with a peak capacity of 767 m3/hour each.

1. 2. Treated Sewage Effluent Networks

AWPT is also active in Project Services for treated sewage effluent networks, which include engineering, procurement, execution and commissioning of treated sewage effluent networks. It also provides O&M Services, including operations and maintenance of treated sewage effluent networks. 

As of 31 December 2019G, AWPT provided O&M Services for Riyadh Area treated sewage effluent networks, including 260 km of treated sewage effluent pipelines, storage tanks with total capacity over 140,000 m3 and pumping stations with peak capacity of 280,000 m3/day, providing treated sewage effluent to King Abdullah Financial District, Princes Noura University, King Saud University and Communication and Information Technology Centre. On the Project Services side, AWPT executed a treated sewage effluent network for Qiddiya, involving engineering, procurement, and construction of 3 km of treated sewage effluent line.

3. Integrated Solutions Segment

AWPT’s integrated solutions segment include storm water solutions, city management concessions and water management services.

1. Stormwater Solutions

AWPT provides Project Services encompassing the engineering, procurement, execution, commissioning, upgrading, rehabilitating of large scale lifting stations, underground tunnelling, combined sewage overflow systems, underground storm water detention system, auxiliary systems, grit removal systems, pumping solutions and emergency storm control systems. AWPT also provides O&M Services for the above-mentioned networks. As of 31 December 2019G, AWPT constructed and operated over 3,000 km of stormwater networks throughout the Kingdom. Its stormwater networks projects include the following:

• • Project Services for Stormwater in Al Nargis and Al Arid in Riyadh, consisting of 47.8 km of pipelines, with all related heavy civil works;
  • Project Services for Stormwater in Riyadh Metro Line 5 and 6 in Riyadh, consisting of 3.5 km of box culvert and 3 km of pipelines, with all related heavy civil works; 
  • O&M Services for Stormwater in Central Riyadh, consisting of 381 km of pipelines, 67 km of box culvert and over 5,000 manholes; and
  • O&M Services for Stormwater in West Riyadh, consisting of 240 km of pipelines, 22 km of box culver and over 3,000 manholes.

2. City Management

In the financial years ended 31 December 2017G, 2018G and 2019G, the revenue from the city management activities represented 18.0%, 8.8% and 7.2%, respectively, of AWPT’s total revenue.

AWPT provides turnkey solutions encompassing the full-scale strategic planning, capital investment, strategic operations and maintenance of supply chain of water starting from water wells, brackish water reverse osmosis treatment plants, sea water desalination plants, water and wastewater distributions networks and pressure management, service networks, metering, client service, billing, wastewater treatment and the treated sewage effluent reuse. To the extent a specific project does not include a turnkey solution, as described above, it would be included in one of the other segments included in this Section [4.6.1] (Business Segments). 

AWPT successfully executed various city management projects across the Kingdom, including for example the Dammam Water and Wastewater Management Project, a project managed by AWPT for the past 20 years (its scope includes full scale management of Dammam City Water and Wastewater Systems for over 1 million residents). 

As of 31 December 2019G, AWPT provided city management services for:

i) wastewater plants with treatment capacity of 450,000 m3/day with fully functional water, sludge and wastewater test labs;

ii) 40 sewage lifting stations and seven main pump stations;

iii) over 2,500 km of sewage networks and over 10 km of main effluent transmission lines;

iv) over 3,000 km of potable water networks conveying 500,000 m3/day;

v) 140 wells and 36 reverse osmosis plants;

vi) sweet water distribution bays at 11 locations and 155 km of desalination transmission lines; and 

vii) as well as quality assurance program for all of the above (including sample collection and solution implementation ranging from treatment plants, networks to end users).

3. Support and Asset Services

In the financial years ended 31 December 2017G, 2018G and 2019G, the revenue from the support and asset services activities represented 1.9%, 1.9% and 2.5%, respectively, of AWPT’s total revenue. 

Support and asset services complement the core business activities of AWPT and provide it with a competitive advantage by being able to offer a full spectrum of water and wastewater solutions to its clients. AWPT can thus meet the varied demands from its clients and the water management services also provide it with cross-selling opportunities. AWPT’s main support and asset services include fabrication workshops, laboratories, leak detection and asset services.

1. 1. Fabrication Workshops

As of 31 December 2019G, AWPT operated three fully furnished and advanced fabrication workshops supporting the internal and external custom requirements of various intricate parts with ability to fabricate heavy custom mechanicals sections as well. The fabrication workshops enable AWPT to maintain continuity of works and to achieve cost savings by securing hard to find parts and providing custom fit solutions based on various site conditions. The workshops also serve as a source of revenue generation as AWPT fulfils the requirements of other customers. 

1. 2. Laboratories

As of 31 December 2019G, AWPT operated over 15 fully equipped and advanced water and wastewater laboratories, leveraging on professional and high calibre staff to perform full spectrum tests, drinking water tests include total dissolved salts, conductivity, PH, nitrates and others. Wastewater laboratory test include, chemical oxygen demand, biological oxygen demand, dissolved oxygen, nitrates, total phosphorus and others.  The laboratories fully integrate with AWPT’s water and wastewater activities and serve as a critical tool to maintain quality and full adherence to the relevant health and safety requirements. AWPT is for example operating the Hail Central Laboratory and the Madinah Central Laboratory, testing water and wastewater parameters across both regions.

1. 3. Leak Detection

AWPT provides turnkey solutions encompassing water lines leak detection utilizing multitude of advanced technologies operated by high calibre professionals in the field. It also offers a vast variety of proactive and corrective techniques for preventing, locating and repairing leaks. It thus serves a critical role in the Kingdom in minimizing water leakage, maintaining continuity of service, and preserving assets above and below ground.

1. 4. Asset Services

AWPT provides turnkey solutions encompassing asset services for water utilities aiming to achieve the least cost and least risk of owning and operating water assets over their life cycle while meeting service standards for clients. This includes the development and implementation of a suite of processes that cover asset acquisition, operation, maintenance, overhaul, and disposal. In addition, setting service levels, computing life-cycle asset costs, maintaining an asset register, monitoring asset condition and performance, and carrying out risk analysis of possible asset failure.