Dammam West ISTP
Wastewater treatment, 200,000 m3/day initial, 350,000 m3/day design capacity in Saudi Arabia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Dammam
- Coordinates
- 26.400, 49.900
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment
- Capacity
- 200,000 m3/day initial, 350,000 m3/day design capacity
- Capital cost
- US$245 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC), 25-year BOOT sewage treatment agreement
- Developer
- Metito Utilities / Mowah / Orascom Construction
- Contractor
- Orascom Construction (EPC lead)
- Operator
- Metito Utilities-led consortium
- Finance
- Project finance, 25-year BOOT; US$160 million (SAR 601 million) non-recourse debt from National Commercial Bank, SMBC Europe and APICORP
- Award or start year
- 2019
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2019-01
Project agreement signed with SWPC
- 2020-02
Construction starts
- 2020-06
Financial close, US$245 million project value
- 2025-09
Plant inaugurated
Sources
6 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, SWPC and Metito consortium close $245m Saudi sewage plant finance deal, 1 June 2020. smartwatermagazine.com.
- Arab News, Saudi Arabia's first independent sewage treatment plant reaches financial close, 2 June 2020. backup.arabnews.com.
- Metito, Dammam Independent Sewage Treatment Plant launches to advance Saudi Vision 2030 Water Strategy, 30 September 2025. metito.com.
- Metito project page, Dammam Independent Wastewater Treatment Project. metito.com.
- Orascom Construction, Concessions and Investments.
- 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.
Orascom Construction holds a minority equity stake and was the leader on the EPC scope.