Meed | Neom seeks firms for sewage treatment project

Neom seeks firms for sewage treatment project

14 March 2024

Saudi Arabia’s Neom, through its subsidiary Enowa, has sought interest from companies for a project to develop the first phase of an independent sewage treatment plant (ISTP) catering to The Line at Neom in Saudi Arabia.

According to sources familiar with the scheme, Enowa issued an expression of interest (EoI) request for the project in February.

The planned ISTP will have a capacity of 250 million litres a day (MLD), equivalent to 250,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d).

The project's first phase is understood to have a capacity of 61MLD.

Several water infrastructure projects are in the bidding and construction stages at Neom.

A Japanese-French team comprising Itochu and Veolia is developing an independent water project (IWP). An engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor is expected to be appointed imminently for the planned 500,000 cm/d zero liquid discharge facility.

Enowa is also procuring a smaller seawater reverse osmosis plant, with a capacity of 150,000 cm/d, on a fast-track EPC basis. It will be located adjacent to the existing desalination plant at Duba on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast.

Pipelines

Egypt’s Petrojet is making progress with two water transmission projects. The first project involves developing a $2bn water transmission pipeline from the Neom Oxagon water desalination plant to the town of Gayal in Tabuk.

Petrojet was also awarded the main contract for the Spine western water transmission line in February 2023.

The Egypt-based company was awarded the main contract for the transmission pipeline from Neom to Gayal two months later, in April 2023.