MUSCAT: Twelve Omani companies have submitted pre-qualification to participate in two large port projects planned in Barka and Sohar.
Two successful bidders will be selected to develop independent water projects in Barka and Sohar. Barka IWP will have a desalination capacity of 281,000 cubic metres per day, while Sohar project will have a desalination capacity of 250,000 cubic metres per day.
These companies/consortiums are Veolia – Marubeni consortium, Itochu – Degremon consortium, International Power, Tecnicas de Desalinizacion de Agus – led consortium, Abengoa Water – National Power & Water consortium, FCC Aqualia – Samsung Engineering consortium, Valoriza Agua, Hyflux Ltd, GS Inima Environment – led consortium, Sijitz Corporation, JGC Corporation and Citic Construction – Al Sulami Group consortium.