Saudi Arabia awards Samsung, Shanghai Electric $3bn contract
- Saudi Arabia: Tuesday, November 27 - 2012 at 05:34
Saudi's state-owned Saline Water Conversion Corp (SWCC) has announced it has awarded a consortium including Samsung Engineering and Shanghai Electric a SR11.3bn ($3bn) contract to build a water desalination plant on the Red Sea coast of the kingdom, Reuters has reported. The new plant will have a capacity of 550,000 cubic metres per day of desalinated water and a power capacity of 2,500 megawatts. Water consumption in the country is already almost double the per capita global average and increasing at an ever faster rate with the rapid expansion of population and industrial development.
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