Barka 5 IWP
Seawater RO, 100000 m3/day in Oman.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Oman
- Location
- Barka
- Coordinates
- 23.700, 57.880
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 100000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$130 m to build the plant (Oman Observer)
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Nama Power & Water Procurement Company
- Developer
- GS Inima
- Contractor
- GS Inima / Fisia Italimpianti
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Project finance
- Award or start year
- 2020
- Commissioned
- 2024-06
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2020-11
Awarded to GS Inima consortium by Nama PWP, 20-year water purchase agreement
- 2024-06
Commercial operation
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.
- Smart Water Magazine, Completion nearing for Oman's Barka 5 water project. smartwatermagazine.com.
- (awarded November 2020; GS Inima with Fisia Italimpianti EPC; 20-year water purchase agreement; advisers Synergy, KPMG, DLA Piper, Fichtner).
- Commercial operation date from GS Inima announcement, June 2024. Oman Observer, Development of Barka 5 IWP kicks off. omanobserver.om.
- 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.
Of the $130 million needed for building the plant. The earlier US$380 million had no source.