Shuqaiq Phase 1 MSF (Shuqaiq I)
Thermal MSF + power, 97,014 m3/day and 108 MW in Saudi Arabia.
Out of service
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Shuqaiq
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Thermal MSF + power
- Capacity
- 97,014 m3/day and 108 MW
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Out of service
- Owner or client
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, now the Saudi Water Authority
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Saudi Water Authority
- Finance
- Saudi government capital budget
- Award or start year
- 1989
- Commissioned
- 1989
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 1989
Commissioned to serve Asir and Jazan with multi-stage flash units of about 97,014 m3/day and 108 MW of generation
- 1990
SWCC chronicle records the Shuqaiq plant phase one entering service together with the water transmission system to Asir
Sources
10 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Saudipedia (Ministry of Media), Shuqaiq Water Desalination Plant. saudipedia.com.
- dates the first phase to 1989, multi-stage flash, about 97,014 m3/day, serving Asir and Jazan.
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, production systems page as archived on 27 September 2023. web.archive.org.
- lists the Shuqaiq system as the 1989 multi-stage flash plant at 97,014 m3/day and 108 MW alongside the 2020 reverse osmosis expansion at 42,500 m3/day.
- The live Saudi Water Authority production systems page,. swcc.gov.sa.
- read in a browser on 20 September 2026 because curl meets a human verification wall, lists only the Shuqaiq reverse osmosis systems of 2020 (42,500 m3/day) and 2023 (40,000 m3/day).
- Saudipedia, Production of Desalinated Water in Saudi Arabia. saudipedia.com.
- names al-Shuqaiq (Phase I) among the liquid fuel thermal systems to be replaced by reverse osmosis.
- The SWCC chronicle,. swcc.gov.sa.
- 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.
read in a browser, records commissionings only and no decommissionings. No retirement date has been published by the Saudi Water Authority, the Saudi Press Agency or Saudipedia; the stage rests on the plant's disappearance from the authority's own fleet list between two snapshots in the same page format.