Adnoc - Mirfa Seawater Treatment Plant

General Information
Owner Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
Masterplan Project (Parent Profile) ADNOC – Project Wave – Abu Dhabi
Location Abu Dhabi, Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE
Status --
Sector Water, Treatment, Water Treatment Plant
Contract Type Build Own Operate Transfer (BOOT)
Onshore/Offshore Onshore
Greenfield/Brownfield Greenfield
Progress 0
Estimated Budget Value ---
Contract Value 2500
Net Value $2500m
Award Date March 2023
Completion Date February 2025
Last Updated On March 2023
ProjectId (Old, New) 354748, 354748


Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) is planning to develop Mirfa planned seawater treatment under Project Wave in Abu Dhabi, the UAE.

The US$3,200 million project involves the following:

1. Construction of a seawater treatment plant

2. Development of a nanofiltration plant with a capacity of 115 million imperial gallons a day

3. Construction of a pumping station

4. Laying of 75-kilometre (km) water transmission pipeline to the Bab and Bu Hasa oilfields

5. Development of in-field distribution network to disseminate treated water to water injection wells

6. Construction of seawater intake and outfall

Second Section

21 March 2023

COBRA Group has been appointed as the developer and the JV of Orascom and Metito has been appointed as the main contractor in the project. (Source: MEED)

13 March 2023

The client is in discussions with the two shortlisted bidders for the main contract. (Source: MEED)

02 February 2023

The client has requested for updated bids from the two shortlisted consortium and the bids are expected to be submitted by the end of February 2023. (Source: MEED)

21 December 2022

The bids are still under evaluation

26 October 2022

The client is undertaking clarification with the three teams that submitted a bid for the contract to develop a seawater treatment plant and transmission pipeline project in Mirfa as part of its Project Wave. (Source: MEED)

04 October 2022

The consortium of Vision International and Veolia, Cobra Instalaciones with Orascom, and Metito, and Marubeni Corporation with self have submitted the bids for the contract to develop a seawater treatment plant and transmission pipeline project in Mirfa. (Source: MEED)

24 August 2022

The main contract bid submission deadline has been extended from August 31, 2022, to the end of September 2022. (Source: MEED)

07 July 2022

The main contract bid submission deadline has been extended from July 18, 2022, to August 31, 2022. (Source: MEED)

02 June 2022

The main contract bid submission deadline is July 18, 2022, and Besix has been appointed as the civil works subcontractor.

19 April 2022

Parsons Corporation and Fichtner Consulting Engineers have been working as consultants on the project and ILF Consulting Engineers has been working as a technical consultant.

20 March 2022

The firms that are likely to take the lead in the consortiums are Spain's Acciona Agua, France's Engie and Saudi Arabia's Vision Invest, while Japan's Marubeni Corporation is expected to bid alone on the project. (Source: MEED)

07 March 2022

The main contract bid submission deadline has been extended to July 18, 2022. The project agreements are expected to be signed with the selected developer or developer consortium by August 2022 and reach financial close by November 2022. (Source: MEED)

10 January 2022

The request for proposals (RFP) is yet to be submitted on March 18, 2022.

02 November 2021

The client has issued the request for proposals (RFP) and the bid submission date is due on March 18, 2022. Following companies have been pre-qualified to submit bids for the project*Acciona Agua *Acwa Power *Cobra Instalaciones *FCC Aqualia *IDE Water Assets Limited *Hutchison Water International Holdings *Itochu Corporation *Jera *Marubeni Corporation* Engie *Six Construct Company Limited *Veolia * Samsung C&T *China Petroleum *China Railway *China State *Hyundai *Orascom and Power China. (Source: MEED)

30 September 2021

The client is expected to issue the request for proposals (RFP) by October 2021. The project is expected to commence commercial operations in the first quarter of 2025. (Source: MEED)

15 March 2021

Following companies have expressed an interest in the project: *Acwa Power *Hyundai Engineering & Construction *Samsung Engineering *Marubeni Corporation *Suez *Veolia. (Source: MEED)

14 March 2021

ILF Consulting Engineers has been awarded a technical advisor contract for the project.