NWC stands firm over Riyadh financing

The Saudi National Water Company has dismissed the possibility of converting the flagship Riyadh wastewater project into a DBO. It has still to release a request for expressions of interest.

The deadlock in the project finance market has led several companies to suggest to the Saudi National Water Company that the Riyadh wastewater project be restructured as a government-funded DBO contract. The scheme is currently foreseen as a mixture of 25-year BOT contracts and concessions lasting up to 2015.

However, Engineer Montazar Muhalhal, director of strategic planning & performance measures at ...

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