Aseelah IWP
Seawater RO, 80,000 m3/day contracted (3,333 m3/hour) in Oman.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Oman
- Location
- Al Ashkharah
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 80,000 m3/day contracted (3,333 m3/hour)
- Capital cost
- US$180 m (JPY 20 bn), as reported by desalination.biz
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Al Asilah Desalination Company SAOC; offtaker Nama Power and Water Procurement under a 20-year water purchase agreement
- Developer
- JGC / United Infrastructure Development Company / Doosan
- Contractor
- Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction
- Operator
- Al Asilah Desalination Company
- Finance
- Project finance, build own operate for 20 years; loans from MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and Shinsei Bank under Nippon Export and Investment Insurance cover; sponsors at award JGC 75 per cent, United Infrastructure Development Company 20 per cent and Doosan 5 per cent
- Award or start year
- 2018
- Commissioned
- 2022-01
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2018-07
JGC announces the build own operate award for an 80,000 m3/day plant in Sharqiyah
- 2021
Plant starts supplying, recorded by the procurer as a 2021 contract start
- 2022-01
Commercial operation date recorded as 1 January 2022
- 2041
Water purchase agreement expires
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- JGC Corporation, Implementation of seawater desalination business in Oman (23 July 2018). jgc.com.
- Al Asilah Desalination Company, Sharqiyah region, nearly 80,000 m3 per day for about 200,000 people, reverse osmosis, build own operate for 20 years, offtaker Oman Power and Water Procurement, shareholders JGC 75 per cent, United Infrastructure Development Company of the Bahwan Engineering Group 20 per cent and Doosan Heavy Industries 5 per cent, constructor Doosan, project cost around 20 billion yen, service scheduled from April 2021. Nama PWP, Contracts. omanpwp.om.
- Sharqiyah IWP, Al Asilah Desalination Company, shareholders JGC Corporation, Umm Al Quwain Investment and Development Company and Dubai Holding Investment Company, capacity 3,333 m3/hour, location Al Ashkharah, commercial operation date 1 January 2022. Nama PWP, Water 7-Year Statement 2026-2032 (Issue 20). omanpwp.om.
- Aseelah IWP, 80,000 m3/day of RO capacity, contract expiry 2041. desalination.biz, OPWP awards BOT contract on Sharqiyah desalination plant. desalination.biz.
- 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.
gives the total project cost as JPY 20 billion ($180 million). Oman Observer (25 July 2018) gave an estimated $203 million. Sources differ on start of service, April 2021 as scheduled by JGC against 1 January 2022 as recorded by the procurer; the procurer's date is used.