SAUDI ARABIA

SWCC Awards Contracts for Shuqaiq Desalination Plant 

Saudi Arabia's Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) on 18 February awarded a consortium of companies two con- tracts worth $215mn for the construction of a desalination/power plant at Shuqaiq in the Southern Asir Province. The first contract for a $127.9mn desalination plant with a capacity of 21.2mn gallons/day of fresh water went to Envirogenies Systems of the US and Pegel-Arabia (a subsidiary of the SOGEX...