Telford based BAC Corrosion Control have been awarded a one million Euro contract to provide expertise and specialist materials to retrospectively fit cathodic protection to a section of the Great Man-Made River in Libya.
The Great Man-Made River project, described as the “eighth wonder of the world” by the Libyans is a 4000 km pre-stressed cylinder concrete pipeline (PCCP) which will eventually bring 4 million cubic feet of water from the aquifers in Sarir, Kufra, Tazerbo and Fezzan in the southern Sahara desert to the coastal areas in the north where agriculture, industry and the majority of the population are located.
Awarded by Al Nahr of Tripoli, Libya, the contract has just been signed to supply specialist engineering services to a 261km section of pipeline as part of the 191 SATB project.
The work will last about 18 months in total, with BAC sending out a Cathodic Protection Engineer to work with the recently appointed Libyan branch office manager and also two Cathodic Protection technicians. The engineer, John Vlahov, who has had previous experience on the Great Man Made River Project, will be based in the county full time.
The contract consolidates the efforts made in Tripoli with the opening of a BAC branch office in April of this year, which is managed by Michael Timms. Feedback from the region has been positive, with the GMRA project work proving this. The hope that this will develop I time to come and provide BAC with yet more invaluable work.