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Water. desalination + reuse Who's Who 2018
4 EPCs landscape
T
he global market for desalination
featured an increase in new project
activity in markets across the world,
including particularly the Middle East
and North Africa. In Saudi Arabia, the big
story is the move to privatise Saline Water
Conversion Corporation (SWCC), and the
Ras Al Khair power and water plant. In the
Delivery Plan 2020, published in April 2018,
the Saudi authorities set out a roadmap for
restructuring the nation's economy to be
less heavily reliant on oil revenues, includ
-
And in Oman, the Oman Power and Water
Procurement Company in March 2017 short-
listed six groups to bid for a 16,000 m
3
/d
plant in Khasab; and in August 2017 issued
a request for proposals on desalination plant
in Wadi Dayqah, near Muscat. In the EPC
world, competition for the new business
is fierce -- a reality that keeps pricing com
-
petitive for clients, but is driving a degree of
consolidation, both corporate and financial.
Here we profile what's been driving some of
the key EPC players during the past year.
ing developing structures for privatisation
and public-private partnerships, and legis
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lation across many sectors including water.
In Dubai, the move to reverse osmo-
sis continued, with a tender issued for a
909,000 m
3
/d desalination plant at Taweela
power and water complex. The call for
developers went out from Abu Dhabi Water
and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) in Q1
2018, for development, financing, construc
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tion, operations and maintenance services
on the project.
The year in EPCs:
Companies and projects that
shaped the business
