Meed | Saudi Arabia receives Moghammas reservoir bids

Saudi Arabia receives Moghammas reservoir bids

23 September 2024

Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors have submitted bids for the contract to build Saudi Arabia's next major water reservoir project.

According to data first obtained by regional projects tracker MEED Projects, the locally-based companies that submitted bids for the Moghammas water reservoir project include:

Metsco Heavy Steel Industries
Mutlaq Al-Ghowairi Contracting
Al-Rawaf Trading & Contracting
Al-Sharif Group

Located in Mecca, the project is being procured as an EPC project by the Water Transmission & Technologies Company (WTTCO), a spin-off of Saline Water Conversion Company, which is now called the Saudi Water Authority.

Before its transfer to WTTCO, however, the Moghammas reservoir project was part of the second phase of the kingdom's independent strategic water reservoir (ISWR) programme being procured by Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC) on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis.

It has a known planned capacity of 3.5 million cubic metres.

The other second-phase project, named Al-Ahsa ISWR, which will have the capacity to store 1.39 million cubic metres, remains within the remit of SWPC, according to a source close to both projects.

Saudi Arabia's first reservoir PPP project, called the Juranah ISWR, reached financial close in May. The project consists of strategic tanks with a total storage capacity of 2 million cubic metres and operational tanks with a capacity of 500,000 cubic metres.

WTTCO projects pipeline

In January, MEED reported that WTTCO had sought consultants for two phases of strategic reservoir studies in the kingdom.

The first phase entails the development of procedures, regulations, best practices and the selection of the best locations for strategic reservoirs and pipes feeding the reservoir.

The second-phase study looks into developing standards and specifications for WTTCO’s planned reservoir projects, as well as studying and investigating aquifers in the kingdom and the possibility of utilising the aquifers as strategic reservoirs.

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Jennifer Aguinaldo