Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 50

12-December-2005

SAUDI ARABIA

Marafiq IWPP Issues Amended RFP; Al-Shaqiq Announces Prequalified Bidders

Shareholders in the Marafiq independent water and power project (IWPP) issued an amended request for proposals (RFP) on 5 December to developers. As expected, the RFP has increased the water output to 800,000 cu ms/day, from the originally requested 300,000 cu ms/day and power output is now 2,500mw rather than the originally planned 2,400mw (MEES, 23...