Zuwara Desalination

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1. ENKA, Zuara Desalination Plant Project. enka.com.
2. Client GECOL; site within 10 km of Zuwara in western Libya, about 100 km from Tripoli; 2 x 20,000 m3/day plant burning heavy or light fuel oil, lump sum turnkey EPC with commissioning and start-up; contract period March 2007 to November 2010; main process equipment, MED evaporators, boilers and auxiliaries from Sidem (Veolia); 3,696 m of 600 mm piling required by weak coastal soil.
3. Libya Herald, Zuwara desalination plant coming on-stream, Jul 2014. libyaherald.com.
4. Capacity 40,000 m3/day from two units, built by Sidem; the first unit was to start production on 9 July 2014 and the second ten days later, three years later than originally scheduled; the plant serves Zuwara, Al-Jamil, Rigdaleen, Al-Asaha, Zultan, Ras Jedir and Ajilat, with plans to rehabilitate the older Zuwara plant and build plants at Misrata, Benghazi and Tripoli.
5. National Oil Corporation, NOC drives effort to reopen Zuwara desalination plant after years of inactivity (31 Aug 2026). noc.ly.
6. Preparations are underway to restart the plant after more than seven years of shutdown (as recorded by the fact-check, Oct 2026; the page refuses automated reading).
7. Libya Observer, Zuwara Water Desalination Plant set for restart after more than seven years, Aug 2026. libyaobserver.ly.
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.

Gas now flowing from the Mellitah complex. Coordinates from the OpenStreetMap feature named محطة تحلية المياه-زوارة, Zuara Desalination Plant, on the coast east of Zuwara.