Yanbu Phase 2 MSF (Yanbu II)

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1. O. A. Hamed and others (SWCC R&D Centre), SWCC MSF Desalination Plants: Current Status and Future Prospects, 6th Saudi Engineering Conference, KFUPM, December 2002, Table 1. faculty.kfupm.edu.sa.
2. dates Yanbu-II to 2000, back-pressure turbine cycle with a power to water ratio of 3.0 MW/MIGD, the lowest in the SWCC fleet.
3. Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Annual Report 2022 (English), Production Plants Map, p. 73. swcc.gov.sa.
4. gives Yanbu 2 at 179,406 m3/day.
5. SHARAKAT, 7 Year Statement 2025-2031, March 2026. sharakat.com.sa.
6. lists a separate "Yanbu 2 (Replacement)" with commercial operation in 2027 and does not carry this plant among the Madinah on-production sources.
7. Saudipedia (Ministry of Media), Production of Desalinated Water in Saudi Arabia. saudipedia.com.
8. states that the Yanbu production system (Phase II) will be decommissioned once the private al-Rais system enters service.
9. Newspens, The Saudi Water Authority offers the assets of the Yanbu plant to raise their economic value, 25 June 2026. newspens.sa.
10. reports the authority putting the assets of Yanbu plant (Phase II) up for sale as part of the switch to reverse osmosis: more than 110,000 tonnes of industrial assets, 162 MW of electrical capacity, desalination production capacity of up to 212,000 m3/day, and about 5,000 tonnes of high value industrial metals including copper, titanium, aluminium and stainless steel.
11. Akhbaar24 carried the same announcement on the same day but its page now returns 404. The Saudi Water Authority production systems page,. swcc.gov.sa.
12. 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 on 20 September 2026 because curl meets a human verification wall, still lists Yanbu 2 as a multi-stage flash and multi-effect system dated 1998 at 211,998 m3/day and 82 MW, so that page had not been updated for the asset sale. No formal shutdown date has been published; the stage now rests on the authority offering the plant's assets for scrap and reuse in June 2026. 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.