Saudi Arabia awards SAR1.3bn wastewater contract to Saudi-Chinese group
- Client
- National Water Company
- Winning contractor
- Armada–Zhangzhou United Waters partnership
- Contract value
- More than SAR1.3bn
- Award date
- Not confirmed in source
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- Client: Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company has signed a contract worth more than SAR1.3bn for the rehabilitation, operation and maintenance of nine sewage-treatment plants in the north of the kingdom.
- Winning contractor: The 15-year agreement was awarded to a Saudi-Chinese partnership comprising Armada and Zhangzhou United Waters. The plants have a combined designed treatment capacity exceeding 337,000 cubic metres a day.
- Contract value: Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company has signed a contract worth more than SAR1.3bn for the rehabilitation, operation and maintenance of nine sewage-treatment plants in the north of the kingdom.
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Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company has signed a contract worth more than SAR1.3bn for the rehabilitation, operation and maintenance of nine sewage-treatment plants in the north of the kingdom.
The 15-year agreement was awarded to a Saudi-Chinese partnership comprising Armada and Zhangzhou United Waters. The plants have a combined designed treatment capacity exceeding 337,000 cubic metres a day.
The package encompasses facilities at Unaizah, Al-Bukairiyah, Al-Muznib and Al-Ras, as well as Hail 1, Hail 2, Baqa’a, Sakaka and Turaif. The treatment tariff under the agreement is SAR0.69 a cubic metre.
The contract is the tenth package in NWC’s long-term operation and maintenance programme. The programme brings private operators into existing wastewater assets while requiring rehabilitation work intended to improve capacity, operating efficiency and environmental performance.
NWC has said that it intends to tender a further 51 treatment plants with combined capacity of approximately 888,000 cubic metres a day. That pipeline is potentially relevant to international water operators, process-equipment suppliers, rehabilitation specialists and providers of treatment and monitoring technology.
Sources: Akhbaar, Saudi Gulf Projects.