{"id":280384,"date":"2019-06-30T03:18:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T07:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYWh0dHA6Ly93d3cudGhpbmtnZW9lbmVyZ3kuY29tL3RlbmRlci1mdWxsLXNlcnZpY2UtZ2VvdGhlcm1hbC1kcmlsbGluZy1jb250cmFjdC1hbGFsb2JhZC1ldGhpb3BpYS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:16:02","slug":"world-bank-tender-seeks-drillers-for-ethiopias-alalobad-geothermal-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/280384","title":{"rendered":"World Bank tender seeks drillers for Ethiopia\u2019s Alalobad geothermal wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Electric Power has invited international bids for a full-service drilling contractor and consumables at the Alalobad geothermal site, ThinkGeoEnergy reported, under a World Bank\u2013backed Geothermal Sector Development Project credit. The tender, ET-EEP-24663-CW-RFB, follows an earlier general procurement notice for the same programme.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-277392\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Koysha-Hydroelectric-project-workers-voice-grievances.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"World Bank tender seeks drillers for Ethiopia\u2019s Alalobad geothermal wells\" \/>\n<p>The contractor must supply personnel, tools, equipment, and materials to drill four wells, with two optional extra wells depending on the first results. Bidding runs under World Bank international competitive bidding rules for eligible source countries.<\/p>\n<p>Documents were to be available from 3 July 2019 at EEP\u2019s procurement office in Addis Ababa for a non-refundable fee of 3,000 birr or 100 dollars. The notice named procurement director Kefyalew Mergiya as the contact for inspections during weekday business hours.<\/p>\n<p>Alalobad sits inside Ethiopia\u2019s wider push to turn Rift Valley heat into power alongside sites such as Aluto-Langano. A successful drill campaign would move another geothermal prospect from paper resource to tested wells.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkgeoenergy.com\/tender-full-service-geothermal-drilling-contract-alalobad-ethiopia\/\">ThinkGeoEnergy<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tender: Full Service Geothermal Drilling Contract, Alalobad, Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;ThinkGeoEnergyThe World Bank has issued a tender notice with an invitation for bids for a Full *Service* Drilling Contractor and Consumable for Alalobad Geothermal Project&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":277392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7911,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Koysha-Hydroelectric-project-workers-voice-grievances.jpg?fit=475%2C266&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aWk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785780,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280384\/revisions\/785780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}