Shuaibah Expansion IWP
Seawater RO, 150,000 m3/day in Saudi Arabia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Shuaiba (Al-Lith, Makkah region)
- Coordinates
- 20.690, 39.520
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 150,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$233 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Water and Electricity Company, 20-year build-own-operate water purchase agreement
- Developer
- ACWA Power / Khazanah / TNB / Malakoff
- Operator
- ALIMTIAZ and ACWA Operations
- Finance
- Project finance; ACWA Power 30 per cent with PIF, Saudi Electricity Company, Khazanah, TNB and Malakoff
- Award or start year
- 2009
- Commissioned
- 2009-12
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2009-12
Commercial operation reached in the fourth quarter of 2009 under a 20-year build-own-operate water purchase agreement
Sources
2 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- ACWA Power project page, Shuaibah Expansion IWP.
- 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.
a fast-track answer to government need, adding 150 thousand m3/day of desalinated water for Jeddah, on reclaimed land next to the Shuaibah IWPP and sharing its discharge channel, two-pass reverse osmosis with energy recovery, 120 km south of Jeddah, offtaker Water and Electricity Company, project cost US$233 million, commercial operations Q4 2009, ACWA Power 30 per cent, project company SEPCO, EPC by Siemens and Doosan. The page prints the capacity as 150 under a heading of thousand m3/day.