Acwa Power won the contract for the Rabigh 4 project, which has a capacity of 600,000 cubic metres per day, after responding to a request for proposals put forward by the off-taker.
In a Tadawul statement today, April 12, the company said the plant will operate with the reverse osmosis technology, at a capacity of up to 600,000 cubic meters (m3)/day.
A specialist in the electrochemical industry and leader in sustainable technologies and in the emerging green hydrogen industry, De Nora said following this Jubail facility will become the largest seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant in the world, producing up to 1 million cu m of seawater per day.
Leading Saudi developer, investor, and operator of power generation, water desalination and green hydrogen plants, ACWA Power has signed water purchase agreements for the Rabigh 4 Independent Water Plant (IWP), which will have a 600,000 cubic metre per day production capacity.
Abengoa achieved 100% availability during the Dependable Water Capacity Test that established the Commercial Operation Date on the 28th of February, following on the successful completion of the 30-day Reliability Test Run. The plant has been producing 600,000 m3/day of drinking water to meet the demand of a population equivalent of 3,000,000 inhabitants and represents the first project launched by Saudi Water Partnership Co. in the Eastern Province.
Acwa Power, a leading regional developer of power and desalination projects, has announced the signing of a water purchase agreement with Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC) for a 600,000-cu-m capacity plant being developed on the Red Sea coast.
In 2022, Acwa Power added 5.44 gigawatts of power generation capacity and 600,000 cubic metres per day of water desalination capacity in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Uzbekistan after signing new agreements, the largest capacity additions in a single year in the company’s history.
The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) expects the initial operation of the first floating desalination barge, near Al Shuqaiq Port, on the western coast of Saudi Arabia, to start in Q2 2023, according to a statement to Tadawul.
ACWA Power’s Jazlah Water Desalination Co. has received the commercial operation certificate from its customer Saudi Water Partnership Co. for the production of 600,000 cubic meters of desalinated water per day.
The 4th MENA Desalination Projects 2023 Report details how a total of $39.3 billion is currently being spent on desalination projects across the region, whether planned or already underway. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are investing the most of these countries, with a total of $14.58 billion and $10.28 billion worth of projects, respectively. According to the U.S.-Saudi Council, as much as 60 percent of the Kingdom’s water came from desalination in 2019, the majority of which was produced by the government-run Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC).