Jul 1, 2019   SOURCE: BusinessWire

Seven Seas Water Announces Curaçao Contract Update

Seven Seas Water, an operating segment of AquaVenture Holdings Limited (NYSE: WAAS) (“AquaVenture” or the “Company”), a leader in Water-as-a-Service® (“WAAS®”) solutions, today announced that it has received a formal notice from Curaçao Refinery Utilities B.V. (“CRU”) that it is exercising its right to purchase the Company’s desalination facilities pursuant to the existing water supply agreement.

The existing water supply agreement with CRU began in December 2008, with the Company providing water from a desalination plant with an initial design capacity of 0.5 million gallons per day under a 5-year contract. This agreement has been amended several times, resulting in both expanded water production to the current design capacity of 4.9 million gallons per day and an extended contract expiration date of December 31, 2019. In addition, the contract expiration date will be extended to December 31, 2022 if CRU’s contract with Refineria di Kòrsou (“RdK”), the owner of the refinery, is extended as a result of RdK’s negotiations with the current operator of the refinery, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A (PDVSA).

The contractual buy-out right requires payment to be made at the contract expiration date. The applicable buy-out amount, if consummated, will be either $3.5 million or, if CRU’s contract with RdK is extended as mentioned above, $2.5 million.

Olaf N. Krohg, Seven Seas Water’s CEO, commented: “We value the fruitful and constructive relationship that we have had with CRU over the last decade. During this time, we have regularly increased our water production to meet CRU’s water needs. According to published reports, RdK is also actively considering proposals from other parties to operate its refinery. We are actively working with CRU and RdK and remain open to constructively engaging with any future operator of the refinery, and will continue to deliver high levels of service through the duration of our contract.”

About AquaVenture

AquaVenture is a multinational provider of WAAS® solutions that provide customers a reliable and cost-effective source of clean drinking and process water primarily under long-term contracts that minimize capital investment by the customer. AquaVenture is composed of two operating platforms: Quench, a leading provider of filtered water systems and related services with over 140,000 units installed at institutional and commercial customer locations across the U.S. and Canada; and Seven Seas Water, a multinational provider of desalination and wastewater treatment solutions, providing more than 8.5 billion gallons of potable, high purity industrial grade and ultra-pure water per year to governmental, municipal, industrial and hospitality customers.

About Seven Seas Water

Seven Seas Water offers WAAS® solutions by providing outsourced desalination, wastewater treatment and water reuse solutions for governmental, municipal (including utility districts), industrial, property developer and hospitality customers. Our desalination solutions utilize seawater reverse osmosis and other purification technologies to produce potable and high purity industrial process water in high volumes for customers operating in regions with limited access to potable water. Our wastewater treatment and water reuse solutions include scalable modular treatment plants, field-erected treatment plants and temporary bypass plants that are used by our customers to treat and convert wastewater into effluent or reclaimed water prior to being released back into the environment.

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