Saudi Arabia's Royal Commission of Jubail and Yanbu has awarded a SR59.9m ($16m) engineering contract to a consortium led by consultancy WS Atkins International to build a power plant on the Gulf coast in Ras Azzour, Reuters has reported. The Ras Azzour power plant will have the capacity to generate 2,400 megawatts of electricity and produce 1,025 million cubic metres of desalinated water per day.