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Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) has received expressions of interest from 12 teams to develop two independent water projects (IWPs) at Sohar and Barka on the Batinah coast.

The 12 teams that have shown interest in the projects are the following:

• GDF Suez,
• Valoriza,
• Hyflux,
• Sojitz Corporation,
• JGC Corporation,
• Veolia and Marubeni Corp,
• Itochu and Degremont,
• Tedagua, Sogex Oman, Korea Water Resources Corporation -- K-Water, UTICO and POSCO E&E,
• Abengoa and National Power & Water Company,
• Aqualia and Samsung Engineering,
• GS Inima, GS E&C and Acciona Aqua, and
• CITIC Construction Co and Al Sulaimi Group.

The Barka IWP will have a total capacity of 281,000 cubic meters per day (m³/d) of desalinated water and the Sohar IWP will have a total capacity of 250,000 m³/d.

The preferred bidder for each project will be responsible for the design, build, finance operation and maintenance of the new facilities.

We have recently reported that OPWP launched a tender process to hire advisors for the Salalah IWP. The project will have a water capacity between 18-22 million imperial gallons per day (MIGD) with a commercial operation date of the plant by early 2019.

We have recently reported about several water PPP projects globally:

• Agadir desalination plant - Morocco
• Accra seawater desalination plant - Ghana
• Nandi Forest Multipurpose dam - Kenya
• West Semarang water supply - Indonesia
• Punilla reservoir concession in Bio Bio region - Chile
• 24X7 drinking water supply - India