Shuqaiq 3 IWP
Seawater RO, 450,000 m3/day in Saudi Arabia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Shuqaiq
- Coordinates
- 17.700, 42.030
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 450,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$600 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC), 25-year water purchase agreement (originally signed with Water and Electricity Company)
- Developer
- Marubeni / Abdul Latif Jameel / Rawafid Alhadarah / Acciona Agua
- Contractor
- Acciona (sole EPC contractor); developer consortium Marubeni 45%, Abdul Latif Jameel 30%, Rawafid Alhadarah 15%, Acciona Agua 10%
- Operator
- Acciona, leading and majority partner in operation and maintenance
- Finance
- Project finance, 25-year BOO; US$500 million limited-recourse loan from MUFG, Credit Agricole CIB, National Commercial Bank, Norinchukin Bank, Samba and SMBC
- Award or start year
- 2019
- Commissioned
- 2022-01
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2019-01
Water purchase agreement signed with Marubeni-led consortium
- 2019-05
Construction starts with US$500 million financing
- 2022-01
Commercial operation
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Marubeni, Commercial operation of Shuqaiq 3 Independent Water Project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 15 April 2022. marubeni.com.
- MEED, Consortium signs contract for Saudi Arabia's Shuqaiq 3 IWP, 30 January 2019. meed.com.
- NS Energy, Marubeni begins construction of Shuqaiq 3 desalination project, 20 May 2019. nsenergybusiness.com.
- Acciona project page, Shuqaiq 3 SWRO.
- 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.