Honaine SWRO
Seawater RO, 200,000 m3/day at 45 per cent recovery; pressure filtration, reverse osmosis and remineralisation in Algeria.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Algeria
- Location
- Honaine
- Coordinates
- 35.181, -1.645
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 200,000 m3/day at 45 per cent recovery; pressure filtration, reverse osmosis and remineralisation
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Algerian Energy Company, through the Geida Tlemcen project company
- Developer
- Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios / Sadyt / Befesa / Codesa
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2005
- Commissioned
- 2010
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2005-11
Contract awarded at 150,000 m3/day
- 2007-01
Construction began
- 2010-01
Operations began under a concession to 2037
Sources
8 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Algerian Desalination Company, Honaine. aec.dz.
- 200,000 m3/day on a 71,000 m2 site, partners Sacyr and Abengoa.
- Sacyr, We built and now operate two desalination plants in Tlemcen Honaine and Skikda. sacyr.com.
- Sacyr designed, built and operates the plant within an international consortium; construction began in 2007, operations in 2010, and the concession runs to 2037; Sacyr quotes 250 million euros for Honaine and Skikda together, which is not separable.
- MEED, Four awards for new desalination capacity (Nov 2005). meed.com.
- Honaine was awarded in November 2005 at 150,000 m3/day for 150 to 175 million dollars, below the capacity as built.
- Smart Water Magazine, Algeria's Tenes desalination plant, built by Abengoa, produces 200 million m3 of drinking water (Jan 2019). smartwatermagazine.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.
Describes Honaine as completed in 2011, against Sacyr's 2010 and a 2012 date in a 2021 CRTSE compilation. Sacyr's date is preferred because Sacyr is a concession shareholder quoting its own concession dates. Coordinates from OpenStreetMap way 653398479, named Station de dessalement d'eau de mer, at Ouled Youssef in Honaine.