SNC LAVALIN TO DRILL TAZERBO WATERWELLS IN LIBYA.MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 1995-- Implementation Authority of the Great Man-Made River from Libya awarded a turnkey contract to SNC-Lavalin for the construction of waterwells, valued at US $ 230 million. Work will begin next March, 1995 and is scheduled to be completed within 26 months. The project team will be based at SNC-Lavalin offices in Montreal and in Libya. SNC-Lavalin's scope of work will include engineering in the form of a review of technical data, surveys and design of new wells, procurement, as well as construction of new wells. Great Man-Made River Project The project objective is to supply 2 million m3/day of water from the Sarir and Tazerbo well fields. This project is for conveying the vast underground water resources beneath the southeastern desert of Libya northward north·ward adv. & adj. Toward, to, or in the north. n. A northern direction, point, or region. north to the coastal belt through huge buried prestressed concrete prestressed concrete Concrete reinforced by either pretensioning or posttensioning, allowing it to carry a greater load or span a greater distance than ordinary reinforced concrete. In pretensioning, lengths of steel wire or cables are laid in the empty mold and stretched. cylinder pipes of 4000mm diameter and represents one of the first steps in the master plan of Libya's "Green Revolution". Water from Phase I will be pumped from 126 wells at the Sarir Wellfield and 120 wells at the Tazerbo Wellfield. The wellfields are at a higher elevation than their destinations along the coast and therefore the initial flow during Phase I will be by gravity. The bulk of the water will be distributed for irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. of various agricultural sites. Turnouts located along the Ajdabiya to Sirt and Ajdabiya to Benghazi lines will supply municipalities with water for industrial and domestic consumption. The SNC-Lavalin Group is a Canadian company listed on the Montr al and Toronto stock exchanges Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. with operations in engineering-construction and manufacturing. The company has some 5,000 employees, offices in 26 countries abroad and current projects in 90 countries. CONTACT: SNC SNC St Norbert College (De Pere, Wisconsin) SNC Sistema Nervioso Central SNC Société en Nom Collectif (French: Partnership) SNC Système Nerveux Central (French: central nervous system) LAVALIN Group Inc. Robert Racine, Vice-President, Public Affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. 514/393-1000 |
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