Abdullah Al-Khodari secures two sewage deals

Al-Khodari has strengthened its service offering in utilities projects. Picture: illustration only.

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Abdullah Al Khodari & Sons said it has received letters of award for two sewage contracts in Saudi Arabia worth a combined SAR 101m ($26m).

One deal will see the contractor build the first phase of a sewage network in Gulwa City worth SAR 67m ($17.87m). It was handed the three-year mandate by the Ministry of Water & Electricity covering the Bahar Province last Wednesday. A further announcement will be made on signing the contract, the company stated.

The second contract is to contrsuct the second phase of a sewage system in Afif City in the Riyadh Province - another three-year deal worth SAR 34m ($9.08m) awarded by the regional Ministry for Electricity and Water.

Al-Khobar-based Al-Khodari is a multi-discipline contractor that competes for contracts across building, infrastructure, utilities and industrial projects.

The company has won a strong of contracts across these areas since its listing on the Tadawul stock exchange last summer, including multiple awards from Saudi Aramco, Saudi’s biggest oil company; construction and supply work on the upcoming aluminium smelter in Rabigh; and work on the Border Guards airport in Umm Almelh.

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It has undertaken an aggressive expansion policy across service areas and geographical reach. This includes MoUs with Saudi Kier Construction to compete for projects in the Eastern Province, as well as the establishment of fully owned offices in Abu Dhabi and Qatar.

Sewage infrastructure has been a main area of focus for Saudi authorities, as the country’s main cities seek to modernise living condition amid wider developmental spending across housing, roads and transport.

Yesterday Makkah Governor Khaled bin Faisal officially opened the extensive sewage project to renovate Jeddah, the Red Coast city riven with floods earlier this year in desperate need of renovation.

“This is one of the important projects for which citizens of this country have been waiting for long,” the governor told reporters. “When I took over as governor of Makkah province, people from Jeddah told me to solve four main problems they were facing,” he said.