Yanbu Phase 1 MSF (Yanbu I)

Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.

1. Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Saline Water Desalination Research Institute (O. A. Hamed), Evolution of Thermal Desalination Processes. kh.aquaenergyexpo.com.
2. its table of evolutionary developments of MSF plants gives Yanbu-I as 1981 with five units of 5 MIGD. O. A. Hamed and others (SWCC Research and Development Centre), SWCC MSF Desalination Plants, Saudi Engineering Conference 2002, hosted by KFUPM. faculty.kfupm.edu.sa.
3. its Table 1 dates Yanbu-I to 1981 at a power to water ratio of 17.5 MW per MIGD, the highest in the SWCC fleet, and the paper notes that Yanbu phase 1 was the acid treatment plant running at a top brine temperature of 121 C. Saudipedia (Saudi Ministry of Media national encyclopaedia), Production of Desalinated Water in Saudi Arabia. saudipedia.com.
4. states that the authority decommissioned the Jeddah phase IV and Yanbu phase I production systems, which used liquid fuel, in 2019. Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Annual Report 2022 (English), Production Plants Map, p. 73. swcc.gov.sa.
5. 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.

lists Yanbu 2, Yanbu RO, Yanbu 3 and a mobile plant at Yanbu but no phase 1, and SHARAKAT's Madinah supply table of March 2026 likewise lists no Yanbu 1. Circulating figures of 357 MW and 100,000 m3/day for this plant could not be traced to a page that opens and are not used. Coordinates added on 20 September 2026, approximate. OpenStreetMap relation 18080143, named محطة ينبع 3 لتوليد الطاقة وتحلية المياه with operator given as the Saline Water Conversion Corporation, is not one train but a site 3.1 km by 3.0 km covering the state desalination complex at Yanbu. Its centre is 23.8614 38.3771 and it lies 0.14 km from the OpenStreetMap coastline, which a seawater intake requires. The Saudi water authority residential compound, OpenStreetMap way 231599964, sits 3 km north-west at 23.8831 38.3583. The features mapped as Yanbu 1 IWPP and Yanbu 2 Power Plant carry the operator Marafiq and belong to the industrial city fleet, not to this plant. Reverse geocoding returns Yanbu governorate in the Madinah region. The individual multi-stage flash phases are not separately mapped, so the pin is given to two decimals and stands for the complex.