Hanwha wins $1.05b Saudi deal

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SEOUL, April 20 (AFP): South Korea's Hanwha Engineering and Construction said Wednesday it had signed a $1.05-billion deal to build a power station and desalination plant in Saudi Arabia. The builder said it would complete the plant by 2014 under the deal with Marafiq, a Saudi Arabian power and water utility company. The plant will be built in the Yanbu industrial complex north of Jeddah, it said. In 2009, the builder clinched a $750 million order from Marafiq to build a power plant in the complex by 2012. Hanwha said it has completed 60 per cent of the plant.