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  Saudi Arabia seeks firms for 300km water transmission scheme

  8 November 2024

  

   

  Saudi Arabia’s Water Transmission Company (WTCO) has invited companies to express interest in an upcoming tender to develop an independent water transmission system (IWTS) project in the country.

  The Ras Mohaisen-Baha-Mecca IWTS will have a contracted transmission capacity of 515,000 cubic metres a day, and extend approximately 300 kilometres.

  The pipeline will be part of WTCO’s so-called Western supply group. 

  Established under Council of Ministers Resolution No. 32 in September 2019, WTCO is the licensed desalinated water transmission system operator in Saudi Arabia.

  It is responsible for water transmission across the kingdom, including operating and maintaining water transmission systems and storage facilities.

  MEED reported in March that the responsibility for procuring several water transmission pipeline projects in Saudi Arabia had been transferred from the state water offtaker, Saudi Water Partnership Company, to WTCO.

  Competitive process

  WTCO intends to conduct a competitive process to select a developer or developer consortium to develop the project on a design, build, finance, lease and transfer basis.

  The project company will lease the entire transmission capacity to WTCO under a water transmission development and lease agreement, the term of which is expected to be up to 35 years.

  Companies can express interest until 16 November.

  WTCO’s transaction advisers for this project include US/India-based Synergy Consulting as lead and financial adviser, US-headquartered Clifford Chance as legal adviser and Austria-based ILF as technical adviser.

  The project supports the Saudi National Water Strategy (NWS 2030), which aims to reduce the kingdom’s water demand-supply gap and provide 90% of the national urban supply via desalinated water to reduce reliance on non-renewable ground sources.

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  Jennifer Aguinaldo
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  Neom awards Oxagon infrastructure deals

  8 November 2024

  

   

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  Saudi Arabia’s Neom has awarded contracts for the infrastructure development at Oxagon industrial city. 

  The gigaproject developer awarded the contracts to local firms including Al-Ayuni Investment & Contracting Company and Saudi Pan Kingdom (Sapac).

  MEED understands that the Oxagon Interchanges 4 and 5 contract was awarded to Al-Ayuni.

  Neom appointed Sapac as the contractor for Interchange 2 and the Sharma Interchange.

  Neom has awarded significant infrastructure development contracts recently.

  Earlier this week, MEED reported that Neom had awarded an estimated SR1.8bn ($500m) contract to the joint venture of Turkish contractor Kolin Construction and local firm Saudi Structures Contracting Company for an infrastructure development package at Trojena.

  The contract was awarded for package two of the roads and utilities scheme, the scope of which involves infrastructure development works for the fun, gateway and discover clusters in Trojena.

  This is the second major contract awarded to the joint venture by Neom for infrastructure works at Trojena. In September, MEED reported that Neom had awarded an estimated SR4bn ($1.1bn) contract to Kolin Construction and Saudi Structures Contracting Company for another infrastructure development package at Trojena.

  Firms have also been asked to submit revised offers by 10 November for the contract to build the tunnels that will serve as the railway junction connecting the Spine with the Neom Connector.

  Known as the Delta Junction, the project involves 26.5 kilometres (km) of tunnelling work that will be split into two lots, one for the north and the other for the south.

  Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Al-Saud launched Oxagon in late 2021. It will include onshore elements as well as floating structures offshore. Construction works on the 48 square-kilometre, eight-sided industrial city have already started.

  An expanded Duba port is a critical component of Oxagon and the broader Neom development, as it will allow greater volumes of materials to be imported for the project. With an expected investment value of $500bn, Neom is the largest programme of construction work in the world.

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  Yasir Iqbal
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  Saudi Arabia to award 7.2GW Marjan, Hajr and PP12 contracts

  8 November 2024

  

   

  Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC) is expected to award the contracts to develop and build three greenfield thermal power plants with a total combined capacity of 7,200MW by the end of November.

  The power plants will be sited at existing power complexes in Hajr, Marjan and Riyadh and will be separate from the ongoing independent power projects (IPPs) being publicly tendered. 

  The expansion project for Riyadh Power Plant 12 (PP12) will have a generation capacity of 1,800MW.    

  A project company formed by Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) will develop the project along with a team of China-headquartered Sepco 3 and South Korea’s Doosan Enerbility, which will undertake the project’s engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, according to industry sources.   

  Saudi utility developer and investor Acwa Power will develop the expansion projects for Hajr and Marjan, which have respective capacities of 3,600MW and 1,800MW.

  It is suggested, but not confirmed, that Sepco 3 will also undertake the EPC contract for both schemes.

  Saudi-listed Acwa Power has yet to confirm or announce the new projects. 

  One of the sources said construction works on these expansion projects could begin by early 2025.

  Original power plants 

  Based on MEED archives, the local Saudi Arabian Bemco signed a SR4.7bn ($1.27bn) contract with SEC to build the original 2,175MW Riyadh PP12 plant in May 2012.

  The US’ GE supplied eight gas turbines for Riyadh PP12, for which it signed an estimated $141m services and maintenance contract in 2017.

  Acwa Power and its partners developed the original Hajr IPP, which became operational in 2015.

  It has a capacity of 3,927MW. The 20-year build, own and operate contract is valued at  $2.7bn. South Korea’s Samsung C&T was the project’s EPC contractor.

  Raft of gas-fired power plants

  The three power plants bring the number of major gas-fired power generation facilities being built or about to begin construction in the kingdom to 15. They have a total combined capacity of roughly 30,500MW, excluding the cogeneration plants being developed for Saudi Aramco.

  A team of Egypt’s Elsewedy Electric and Germany’s SIemens Energy is building a 1,200MW plant in Rabigh.

  In September, MEED reported that SEC had issued limited notices to proceed to contractors for the following gas-fired plants, which are located in the kingdom’s Eastern Province:

  • Qurayyah
  • Ghazlan 1
  • Ghazlan 2

  A team comprising Egypt’s Orascom Construction and Spain’s Tecnicas Reunidas received a limited notice to proceed for the contracts to build a 3,600MW power plant in Qurayyah and a second plant, the 2,900MW Ghazlan 2 project, sources familiar with the projects said.

  In addition, the contract to build a new power plant next to Ghazlan 1, which will have a capacity of 2,400MW, is understood to have been awarded to Energy China.

  MEED understands that the power plants will be developed on a turnkey EPC basis.

  On 7 November, SPPC announced the winning bidders for the contracts to develop four CCGT plants in Riyadh and the Eastern Region.

  A consortium comprising SEC, Acwa Power and South Korea’s Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) won the contract to develop and operate the Remah 1 and Nairiyah 1 IPPs, which each have a capacity of 1,800MW.

  A second consortium comprising the UAE-based Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa), Japan’s Jera Company and the local Albawani Company successfully bid for the contract to develop and operate the similarly configured Remah 2 and Nairiyah 2 IPPs.

  Construction work is under way for four IPPs that SPPC awarded last year. Taiba 1 and 2 and Qassim 1 and 2 will have a combined capacity of 7,200MW.

  Experts say Saudi Arabia’s liquid fuel displacement programme and the need to increase the flexibility of its electricity grid to accommodate more renewable power underpin moves to expand the kingdom’s gas-fired capacity. 

  Saudi Arabia envisages that renewable energy sources will account for half of its installed electricity generation capacity by 2030.

  SPPC previously indicated that the plants it has tendered and awarded will operate using natural gas combined-cycle technology with a carbon-capture unit readiness provision.

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  Jennifer Aguinaldo
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  Firm poised to win Ruwais cogen contract

  7 November 2024

  Kuwait-headquartered Alghanim International is poised to win the contract to design and build a cogeneration plant catering to the Taziz derivatives complex in Abu Dhabi’s Ruwais industrial area, industry sources say.

  Known as Project Volta, the planned steam and power cogeneration facility will supply electricity to the plants built at the Ruwais petrochemical complex, some 220 kilometres west of Abu Dhabi city.

  Initial plans for the plant’s power generation unit indicated a capacity of 200MW, although this has not been officially confirmed.

  Depending on the final project scope and specifications, the project budget could be about $500m.

  Adnoc and Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa) received and opened revised proposals for the contract in January 2023, before the project was put on hold.

  According to industry sources, only Alghanim International and India-headquartered Larsen & Toubro submitted revised proposals for the contract in January 2023.

  Before an addendum that prompted a revision in proposals, the following companies were understood to have submitted initial bids for the contract in July 2022:

  • Alghanim International (Kuwait)
  • Harbin (China)
  • Larsen & Toubro Power (India)
  • Orascom Construction (Egypt) / Elsewedy (Egypt) / Metito

  MEED reported in February this year that the main project client, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), has reactivated the tendering process for the project.

  Adnoc signed an agreement with Taqa in June 2021 to construct other utilities in the Ruwais complex, including power, steam, cooling, demineralised and wastewater services.

  The total investment in building the Ruwais derivatives park will be $5bn. Several derivatives plant projects with an estimated budget of $3bn have been tendered. 

  Taziz is a 60:40 joint venture of Adnoc and Abu Dhabi’s industrial holding company ADQ.

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  Jennifer Aguinaldo
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  Meridiam eyes 2025 close for $2bn Jordan water project

  7 November 2024

  

   

  A team led by Paris-based investment firm Meridiam aims to reach financial close for Jordan’s Aqaba-Amman water desalination and conveyance project sometime in 2025.

  According to an industry source, the project is progressing well. The developer team is currently working with Jordan’s public authorities and discussing financing with partners.

  “There is no definite target for financial close, but it should be reached in 2025,” the source told MEED.

  The project is crucial to addressing Jordan’s severe water scarcity issue. The kingdom is one of the world’s most water-stressed countries, consuming nearly 1 billion cubic metres of water a year.

  The domestic sector consumes approximately 50% of this, with only 61 cubic metres of water available per person a year, far below the global absolute water scarcity level of 500 cubic metres of water per capita.

  Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh announced in August this year that a team comprising French companies Meridiam and Suez and their partners had been chosen to implement the project.

  Estimated to cost $2bn-$3bn, the Aqaba-Amman water desalination and conveyance build, operate and transfer project is Jordan’s single largest planned infrastructure scheme to date. 

  The desalination component of the project will have the capacity to treat 835,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d) of water, although the scope of the contract that has been awarded to the developer consortium has a capacity of 300,000 cm/d.

  It also includes 445 kilometres of pipelines that will transport desalinated water from the southern Red Sea coast to the country’s northern regions.

  In addition to Meridiam and Suez, the developer consortium includes Egypt’s Orascom Construction and France’s Vinci Construction Grands Projets.

  According to Meridiam, the project is supported by the US International Development Finance Corporation and the US Agency for International Development (Usaid) in Amman, which has also been advising the Jordanian government on the project.

  Founded in 2005, Meridiam manages over $22bn of assets and more than 125 projects to date.

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  Jennifer Aguinaldo