Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC) has extended the tender closing date by one month for the contract to develop a new desalination plant using seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) technology in Ras Mohaisen, Saudi Arabia. The Ras Mohaisen IWP scheme will have a design capacity of 300,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d). SWPC tendered the contract in December 2022, with proposals initially expected to be submitted in May of that year. Since then, the last day for bid submissions has been extended several times, with the latest deadline falling during the last week of February. The project is part of a programme to develop nine IWPs under SWPC’s latest seven-year planning statement. It is initially expected that the SWRO plant will reach commercial operation by the third quarter of 2026. Ras Mohaisen is about 300 kilometres south of Mecca, on the Red Sea coast in Saudi Arabia’s Western Region. SWPC has appointed Netherlands-headquartered KPMG as the financial adviser, with UK-based Eversheds Sutherland acting as the legal adviser for the project. (ICE RIYADH)

Fonte notizia: Meed