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Sabiya Power and Desalination

Thermal MSF + power, 460,000 m3/day (about 101 MIGD) after the second phase in Kuwait.

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Country
Kuwait
Location
Sabiya
Coordinates
29.563, 48.168
Technology
Thermal MSF + power
Capacity
460,000 m3/day (about 101 MIGD) after the second phase
Capital cost
—
Stage
Operational
Owner or client
Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy
Contractor
—
Operator
—
Finance
—
Award or start year
2006
Commissioned
2006

Record last checked 2026-09-18.

History

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.

  1. Frontiers in Environmental Science, A detailed perspective of water resource management in a dry and water scarce country: the case in Kuwait (2022). frontiersin.org.
  2. Table 2 gives eight coastal desalination plants with year, technology and capacity in m3/day.
  3. Frontiers dates Sabiya to 2006, gives 460,000 m3/day and labels the technology multi-effect distillation.
  4. Alfadhli and Alhashemi, Environmental Impact of Desalination Plant Saline Water on Kuwait Bay, Journal of Engineering Research and Application 9 (2), 2019. ijera.com.
  5. Table 1, citing MEW 2006, lists the installed distillation plants in MIGD and million m3/day.
  6. The 2019 table, on MEW 2006 data, gives Sabiya 37.5 MIGD (170,000 m3/day), which is the position before the second phase.
  7. Power Technology, Subiya oil-fired power plant. power-technology.com.
  8. 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.

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