DESAL DEALINGS
- From: Vol 12, Issue 2 (February 2011)
- Category: Need to know
- Region: Unspecified
- Country: Australia, Saudi Arabia and Singapore
- Related Companies: Doosan, Hyflux, Marubeni, Osmoflo, Saline Water Conversion Corporation and Temasek Group
* Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation raised eyebrows by directly awarding the $124 million contract for a 68,000m3/d (15 MIGD) multiple effect distillation unit at Yanbu to Doosan.
The Korean company has never built an MED unit even one tenth that size before. It seems that Doosan offered SWCC a deal that it could not refuse: the company would build the plant at its own cost, and only once it had started making water would it offer SWCC the opportunity to buy the plant, paying in instalments. No ...
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