Halabiyeh-Zalabiyeh Dam
Dam and hydroelectric scheme, 23 m high dam with an 81 MW hydropower plant in three units, for irrigation of about 30,000 ha; the same call covers a pumped-storage power plant of up to 1,200 MW in Syria.
Planned
The record
- Country
- Syria
- Location
- Euphrates, about 50 km north of Deir ez-Zor
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Dam and hydroelectric scheme
- Capacity
- 23 m high dam with an 81 MW hydropower plant in three units, for irrigation of about 30,000 ha; the same call covers a pumped-storage power plant of up to 1,200 MW
- Capital cost
- US$433.7 m indicative cost of the dam and hydropower plant (MEED); the US$729.6 m pumped-storage power plant in the same US$1.16 bn call is a power project and is not counted
- Stage
- Planned
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Energy
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Public sector, no donor financing (GTAI); the ministry is considering build-own-operate-transfer, build-operate-transfer, public-private partnership and EPC structures
- Award or start year
- 2026
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-10-16.
History
- 2026-10
Ministry of Energy invites expressions of interest, due 10 November 2026
Sources
6 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- MEED, Syria seeks interest for $1.16bn Euphrates dam, 7 October 2026. meed.com.
- Syria's Ministry of Energy has invited expressions of interest; US$433.7 million for the dam and hydropower plant and US$729.6 million for the pumped-storage power plant; 81 MW hydroelectric plant with three generating units; pumped storage of up to 1,200 MW with 3.5 hours of storage and four reversible units; 23 m high dam; BOOT, BOT, PPP and EPC models considered; EoIs due 10 November, enquiries until 26 October.
- MEED gives reservoir storage of about 219 million m3, while energynews.pro (8 Oct 2026) gives about 140 million m3, so no storage figure is recorded.
- Germany Trade & Invest, Syria: Staudammprojekt Halabiya Zalabiya, ref. 52210, 12 October 2026. gtai.de.
- Irrigation of 30,000 ha, 81 MW hydropower and a 1,200 MW pumped-storage plant; public sector, no donor financing; deadline 10 November 2026. energynews.pro, Syria seeks partners for a $1,163.3 million dam on the Euphrates, 8 October 2026. energynews.pro.
- 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.
Site about 50 km north of Deir ez-Zor; about 30,000 ha to be irrigated.