01 November 2011

GALFAR Engineering and Contracting Company has won a major contract to widen the Izz-Adam section of the Nizwa-Thumrait Road in Oman.

The 46-km-long road project worth RO50.87 million ($129 million) is expected to be completed in 912 days excluding 60 days for mobilisation. Under the contract, Galfar will upgrade an existing 36-km stretch of road to a dual carriageway and construct a new road extending across13 km.

Oman-based Galfar bagged the project, heading off competition from companies like Al Naboodah Contracting, Larsen & Toubro (Oman), Simplex Infrastructure, DSC Infrastructure, Khalid bin Ahmed & Sons, Nagarjuna Construction, SezaiTurkes-FeyziAkkaya, Desert Line Projects and Oman Company Building and Contracting.

Galfar has also been awarded another contract to the build a water transmission pipeline for the Al Amerat area of Oman’s Muscat Governorate. The Public Authority for Electricity and Water  is overseeing the implementation of the RO13.964 million ($36 million) Wadi Adai-Al Amerat project, which is part of a wider scheme to strengthen potable water supply to all areas of the capital city. The project involves the construction of an 11-km-long and 56-inch steel pipeline that will replace an existing 600 mm water main.

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