Five-plant SWRO programme 2022–25 (cost not allocated to plants)
Seawater RO, Not a separate plant: a programme-level cost line. The five plants, 300,000 m3/day each, carry their own rows (Cap Blanc, Fouka 2, Cap Djinet 2, Béjaïa, El Tarf) in Algeria.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Algeria
- Location
- Cap Blanc (Oran), Fouka (Tipaza), Cap Djinet (Boumerdès), Béjaïa and El Tarf
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- Not a separate plant: a programme-level cost line. The five plants, 300,000 m3/day each, carry their own rows (Cap Blanc, Fouka 2, Cap Djinet 2, Béjaïa, El Tarf)
- Capital cost
- US$2.4 bn programme total minus Cap Blanc's US$420 m: arithmetic on two sourced figures (North Africa Journal; Algerie Eco), not a published number. Counted once here; not attributed to any one plant
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Algerian Desalination Company (ADC, formerly Algerian Energy Company), Sonatrach group
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Sovereign
- Award or start year
- 2022
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-10-10.
History
- 2022-06
First stone laid at Cap Blanc
- 2025-02
Cap Blanc, Fouka 2 and El Tarf inaugurated
- 2025-03
Cap Djinet 2 inaugurated
- 2025-06
Béjaïa enters initial service
Sources
4 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- The North Africa Journal, Algeria opens first of five seawater desalination plants, 25 Feb 2025. north-africa.com.
- gives US$420 million for Cap Blanc and about US$2.4 billion for the programme of five plants.
- Algerie Eco, Dessalement: inauguration de la station de Cap Blanc a Oran, 20 Feb 2025. algerie-eco.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
puts the investment for the five plants at about 2.4 billion dollars. No source read publishes a cost for Fouka 2, Cap Djinet 2, Béjaïa or El Tarf. This row exists so that the programme total is counted once in the register's totals without being attributed to any one plant (Ruben's decision, 10 Oct 2026). Location fields are left blank because it covers five coastal sites.