For the project, commissioned in 2016, that represents the most impressive technical or environmental achievement in the field of industrial water.
FSE was proud to be a part of the project team for the $3.43B Escondida Water Supply Project, which included a 57-million gallon per day (2,500 liters per second) greenfield seawater RO Desalinization Plant, located at the Caleta Coloso Port near Antofagasta Chile. Supplying fresh water piped inland to service the Minera Escondida Copper Mine located in the Atacama Desert at Escondida.
“What makes it special? The expansion of the world’s largest copper mine, at Escondida in Chile’s parched Atacama Desert, was entirely dependent on securing a reliable water supply. By drought-proofing its operations via a seawater desalination plant, Minera Escondida can now go a long way to meeting the rising global demand for copper, driven by anticipated economic expansion in China and the US.”
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