United Utilities has awarded an AMP8 contract for leakage detection and repair for biogas facilities with a total value of £1.5 million including VAT.

United Utilities went out to tender with the service contract for a single supplier focused on providing Leakage Detection in line with the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED).
EA BAT guidance dictates that the scope for LDAR is sources of leakage of Volatile Organic Carbon (VOC’s) including methane.
The following type of assets are included in the LDAR scope:
- Double membrane roofs (air blower vent)
- Roof and cover fixings
- Pressure relief valves and vents
- Feeding and digestate separation units
- Gas pipes
- Conveyors and presses
- Compressor
- Combined heat and power plant (methane slippage)
- Gas upgrading plant
- Reception storage
- Digestate storage
- Pits and sumps,
United Utilities’ Bioresource and Energy Services team require surveys to detect fugitive emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s) and other substances to air including methane.
The contract has been awarded to Oss Enviro (Global) Ltd .
Earliest date the contract will be signed is 19 October 2026 and estimated start and end contract dates are 20 October 2026 to 19 October 2030.
Near-real-time microbial monitoring of wastewater discharge and bathing waters is now possible thanks to the BactoSense ID solution created by Swiss-based bNovate Technologies.
Craig Nienaber, Business Development Manager for Safe Access Solutions (SAS) at HUBER Technology, explores why the company is seeing a growing level of interest in its safe access solutions for critical infrastructure providers, including their application in wastewater treatment assets.

Southern Water has released film and images showing what it’s like to walk inside Hampshire’s expanded Yew Hill underground reservoir for the very last time, before it gets filled with water.