Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC), the principal off-taker for water and wastewater projects in Saudi Arabia, has issued Request for Proposal (RFP) Juranah Independent Strategic Water Reservoir (ISWR) project.

The ISWR, with a total capacity of 2,000,000 cubic metres, is expected start commercial operations in the first quarter of 2027, SWPC said in a statement dated 6 December 2022.

In May 2022, Zawya Projects had reported that SWPC prequalified 17 companies for the ISWR project, which is being procured on Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) basis.

SWPC's advisers on the project are Synergy Consulting as lead and financial adviser; Amer Al Amr Law Firm as legal adviser; and Fichtner as technical adviser.

(Writing by Senthil Palanisamy; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)