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PPP pipeline & contract awards

The structured procurements that shape this market: who is buying, what is coming and at what scale, and, once the dust settles, who won. The pipeline carries a stage and an expected award window rather than a deadline, so nothing here goes stale between reviews.

Curated from procurer publications and sector reporting; every row names its source. Reviewed quarterly. Last review: 29 September 2026.

46
programmes in the pipeline
19
procuring bodies
210
awards logged
$7.2 bn
disclosed pipeline value
This is a curated view of the major structured procurements: IWPs, ISTPs, transmission PPPs and the large EPC programmes. It is not a complete tender feed. For live day-to-day notices see where to find live tenders.

The pipeline

Sorted with the schemes closest to an award first. Open a row for capacity, notes and the source it was verified against.

Contract awards

Who won what. Deadlines expire; awards do not — this log only grows. Year is the award year for curated entries and the commissioning target for schemes drawn from the projects register; each row says which.

Track record

The developers, sponsors and contractors most active across the major projects we follow.

CompanyProjectsCountriesValue participatedLargest project
ACWA Power5Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates$6.0 bnAz-Zour North Phase 2 & 3 IWPP
Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction4Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia$602 mShuaibah 4 SWRO (Shoaiba RO4)
Degremont of France, designer and contractor4Iran——
TAQA3United Arab Emirates$2.3 bnTaweelah RO IWP
ENGIE3Morocco, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates$1.6 bnJubail 3B IWP
IDE Technologies3Israel$940 mSorek 2 Desalination
GS Inima3Oman, United Arab Emirates$898 mShuweihat 4 RO IWP
Orascom Construction3Egypt, Tunisia$740 mBahr El-Baqar Wastewater Treatment
Fisia Italimpianti3Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates$129 mBarka 5 IWP
Metito3Egypt, Tunisia$97 mAl Arish Desalination
ENKA, with Sidem (Veolia) supplying the MED evaporators, boilers and auxiliaries3Libya——
Nesma2Saudi Arabia$3.0 bnJubail–Buraydah IWTP
Arab Contractors2Egypt$740 mBahr El-Baqar Wastewater Treatment
ACCIONA Agua with Al-Rashid Trading and Contracting Company2Saudi Arabia$384 mShuqaiq RO1 Replacement (Shuqaiq 4)
Metito and Orascom Construction joint venture2Egypt$130 mEast Port Said Desalination

Ranked by the number of tracked major projects a company has taken part in as developer, sponsor or main contractor. Consortium projects are counted in full for each named member, which is the standard league-table convention — so the value column is “value participated in”, not revenue. Drawn from the roughly one hundred major schemes in our major projects register and the curated awards log; it is a track record across what we track, not a market census.

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