Saudi Arabia's Water & Electricity Company (WEC) has prequalified eight major international engineering groups as supervision consultants for the upcoming desalination projects in the kingdom.

These include Finland's Pöyry, Spanish groups Typsa and Ayesa, British engineering giant Atkins Global, top German group Fichtner and Canada's WSP besides Belgian utility expert Tractebel engie and Saudi group ILF-Tecon, said the WEC in its statement.

The Saudi utility pointed out that all the eight companies will be authorised to receive RFP (request for proposals) for supervision consultancy of desalination projects being developed in the kingdom.

Each of these companies will receive qualification certificate by co-ordinating with their focal point of contact, it added.-TradeArabia News Service