Shuaibah 4 SWRO (Shoaiba RO4)
Seawater RO, 400,000 m3/day in Saudi Arabia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Shuaiba (Al-Lith, Makkah region)
- Coordinates
- 20.670, 39.530
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 400,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$422 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, now the Saudi Water Authority
- Contractor
- Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction
- Operator
- Saudi Water Authority
- Finance
- Saudi government capital budget
- Award or start year
- 2017
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2015-02
Black and Veatch appointed engineering and design consultant
- 2017-03
Doosan signed the US$422 million EPC contract with SWCC
- 2022
Listed by SWCC as an operating plant at 400,000 m3/day
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.
- Doosan Enerbility news release, Doosan Heavy to build Saudi Arabia's largest seawater RO desalination plant. doosanenerbility.com.
- contract signed 29 March 2017 with SWCC, worth 470 billion won or US$422 million, 400,000 tonnes a day, at Shuaibah about 110 km south of Jeddah, described as the country's largest-capacity seawater RO plant.
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Annual Report 2022 (English), Production Plants Map, p. 73. swcc.gov.sa.
- gives Al-Shuaiba RO4 at 400,000 m3/day.
- US-Saudi Business Council, 7 January 2021. ussaudi.org.
- 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.
puts Shuaibah IV at US$500 million and 400,000 m3/day with completion planned for May 2021, and notes Black and Veatch was appointed engineering and design consultant in February 2015. Commissioning month left blank: no source opened here gives a dated commercial operation announcement.