ANTOFAGASTA DESALINATION PLANT EXPANSION
Company: Aguas Antofagasta – EPM Group
Deadline: 2025
Estimated Investment: US $ 130 M
Expansion of the Desalination Plant Antofagasta located in the La Chimba sector of the regional capital. The project, which reaches the 130 million dollars, currently supplies Antofagasta and Mejillones and produces 1,056 liters per second. With the expansion works, the production will increase by 53%. Once the expansion of the plant comes into operation, electricity consumption will have an international environmental certification, i.e. "Clean Energy" that will replace fossil fuels, avoiding the emission of 79,300 tonnes of CO2 per year, where the utility is committed to reducing the carbon footprint in its production process.
The project is more than 62% complete and Aguas de Antofagasta is evaluating the options to reactivate its execution.
LOS CABOS, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR
Company: CONAGUA - Oomsapas
Deadline: 2025
Estimated Investment: US $ 85 M
The project focuses on the design, construction, equipment, operation, maintenance and exploitation of a desalination plant in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, with a capacity of 250 l/s. This development will include a number of essential structures:
- Extraction of saline water by means of a direct intake from the sea.
- Water pipeline to the desalination plant.
- Desalination and purification plant that will include a pre-treatment unit, a high-pressure pumping system, membrane modules, as well as units for cleaning, maintenance and post-treatment.
- Pumping plants.
-Aqueduct.
- Tanks for water regulation and/or rejection.
- Complementary works and installations necessary for the efficient operation of the system.
DESALINATION PLANT IN THE COQUIMBO REGION
Company: Ministry of Public Works (MOP)
Deadline: 2029
Estimated Investment: US $ 300 M
The project includes the creation and management of a seawater desalination plant in the Panul area, along with the necessary infrastructures for water transport in the Coquimbo Region. Its purpose is to provide drinking water for human consumption in the communes of Coquimbo and La Serena, with the possibility of expanding to other systems in the future.
LOS CALATOS
Company: Hampton Mining Perú
Deadline: 2029
Estimated Investment: US $ 650 M
The desalination plant project is part of a mining project covering an area of 275 km2, it has been designated as a project of national interest by the Peruvian government. It is planned that seawater will be used for metallurgical processing purposes.
CRAMSA
Company: Compañía Regional de Aguas Marítimas S.A
Deadline: 2028
Estimated Investment: US $ 5 Bn
CRAMSA's "Aguas Marítimas” Project will contribute to solving the water supply needs for human consumption and industry in the communes of Antofagasta, Sierra Gorda and Calama in the Antofagasta Region. To this end, it considers the use of seawater from a catchment located in the Caleta Bolfin sector, outside the urban limit of Antofagasta, 12 kilometers south of Caleta Coloso, where a 700,000 m3/day desalination plant will be built with a seawater catchment system and an outfall for the discharge of reject water (seawater with a higher concentration of salts).
TIA MARIA COPPER MINE
Company: Southern Copper Corp
Estimated Investment: US $ 650 M
The project consists of the construction of a desalination plant that will produce 235 l/s day of desalinated water, a pumping station, water storage tanks, transport pipes, intake and outlet pipes, biochemical reaction tanks and sedimentation tanks.
