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SWPC Issues RFQs To 35 Firms , For Key Desalination Project | |
| Sumita Pawar |
Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC) has issued requests for qualifications (RFQs) to a total of 35 companies for the Jubail 4 and Jubail 6 Independent Water Project, which has a total capacity of 600,000 cu m per day.
According to the report, the scope of work includes the finance, development, operation, and maintenance of the key seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination water project in Jubail Industrial City, as well as associated infrastructure and facilities.
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The desalination plant will be located 18 km south of Jubail Industrial City in the kingdom, adjacent to the existing plant units (Jubail Phase 1, Jubail Phase 2, and Jubail 3A and 3B), in the Eastern Province of the kingdom.
The report further mentioned the top firms eyeing the project, which include Spanish infrastructure majors Acciona, Abengoa Agua, GS Inima, Lantania Aguas, and Elecnor Group, French group Veolia, Italian group Fisia Italimpianti, and Japan’s Marubeni Corporation, in addition to Indian construction majors Shapoorji Pallonji, VA Tech Wabag, and Vishvaraj Environment, and Chinese groups China First Heavy Industries International and Hainan Litree Purifying Technology.
Among the top Saudi firms in the race are utility giants Acwa Power, Ajlan & Bros., Marafiq, Buhur for Investment, Fas Energy, Nesma, Aljomaih Energy and Water, Alsharif, Al Kawther Industries, Mowah, and Saudi Pan Kingdom Company (Sapac).
The regional heavyweights who have expressed interests in the project include the Middle East unit of global energy major Engie, Kahrabel; UAE groups Utico and Metito as well as Kuwait-based Alghanim International General Trading & Contracting and Egypt’s Orascom Construction, stated the report.
According to SWPC, the application for pre-qualification is open, on an individual basis or as a consortium, to all entities that have submitted an expression of interest or to any such entity that has not submitted an expression of interest and has obtained SWPC’s approval, the report concluded.