Enowa, the utility subsidiary of Saudi gigaproject developer Neom, is understood to have extended the tender closing date for a contract to build a new seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant with a capacity of 150 million litres a day (MLD) in Neom. Enowa tendered the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract in April with an initial bid deadline of 22 May.   The client is expected to extend the bid deadline until the end of September.  The 150MLD project, which is equivalent to a capacity of 150,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d), was previously known as the Moonlight desalination plant. It will be located adjacent to the existing 125MLD desalination plant at Duba on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast. The project is expected to take 12 months to complete. Neom said the plant will treat seawater with total dissolved solids of up to 42,000 milligrams a litre. The project scope includes: offshore intake towers and pipelines seawater intake and screening station feed intake chlorination system media filtration or MF/UF membranes reverse osmosis first pass reverse osmosis second pass post-treatment and stabilisation automated clean-in-place system waste treatment unit reject disposal and outfall The selected contractor is also expected to build the necessary storage tanks for the desalinated and stabilised water, an operator control room and programmable logic control and Scada systems.   To meet the short deadline, Neom has asked contractors to confirm whether they already possess a design of an existing plant that can be used for the project. In May, Enowa confirmed the cancellation of a project to develop a renewable-energy powered advanced SWRO project with zero liquid discahrge in Oxagon, Neom’s industrial cluster. The scope of the cancelled project's first phase, which was due to be developed by a team of Japan's Itochu Corporation and France's Veolia, included a desalination plant with a production capacity of 500,000 cm/d of desalinated water.      For registration as supplier: https://www.neom.com/en-us/our-business/suppliers (ICE RIYADH)

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