The Saudi publicly owned company Saline Water Conversion Corporation has awarded ACCIONA and its partner RTCC the construction of the Al Khobar 2 desalination plant at Khobar, on the east coast of Saudi Arabia around 400 kilometres from Riyadh.

It is a turnkey contract valued at around USD 500 million. The facility will be equipped with reverse osmosis technology and a daily capacity of more than 600,000 cubic meter, making it one of the biggest in the country and the largest RO plant under EPC scheme awarded in a single shot in KSA.

It will provide a service to three million people in the area.

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