Sohar Desalination
Seawater RO, 250,000 m3/day in Oman.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Oman
- Location
- Sohar
- Coordinates
- 24.350, 56.710
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 250,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- Close to EUR 200 m investment (Sacyr), about US$224 m at EUR 0.893 per US$ (World Bank official exchange rate, euro area, 2019 average: the year the plant entered operation, as the source gives no year)
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Nama Power and Water Procurement Company (then OPWP), 20-year water purchase agreement; project owned by Sacyr Agua 51 per cent, Oman Brunei Investment Company 25 per cent, Sogex Oman 24 per cent
- Developer
- Sacyr Agua / Oman Brunei Investment Company / Sogex Oman
- Contractor
- Sacyr Sadyt (design and construction)
- Operator
- Sacyr Agua-led consortium
- Finance
- BOO concession with 20-year water purchase agreement (design, build, own, finance, operate)
- Award or start year
- 2019
- Commissioned
- 2019
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2019-10
Sacyr announces start of operations at the 250,000 m3/day Sohar plant
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.
- Sacyr, Sohar desalination plant: water for sustainable development. sacyr.com.
- Smart Water Magazine, Sacyr starts operations at the desalination plant in Sohar, Oman, 8 October 2019. smartwatermagazine.com.
- InfraPPP World, Sacyr-led team wins IWP in Oman. infrapppworld.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.
Developer consortium Valoriza Water (51 per cent, a Sacyr subsidiary), Oman Brunei Investment Company (25 per cent) and Sogex Oman (24 per cent). Budget converted from close to EUR 200 million at EUR 0.893 per US$, the World Bank official exchange rate for the euro area (PA.NUS.FCRF) for 2019, the year the plant entered operation; Sacyr does not date the figure.