The public-owned Saudi company Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has awarded ACCIONA, together with its partner RTCC, the construction of the Al Khobar II desalination plant, which will be located on the east coast of Saudi Arabia around 400 kilometres from Riyadh.
Together with the Al Khobar I desalination plant, also awarded to ACCIONA in 2018 with a daily capacity of 210,000 m3, it makes the complex one of the biggest in the country.
General information
- Location: Khobar, Saudi Arabia
- Capacity: 630,000 m3/d
- Procedure: Reverse osmosis
- Type of contrat: EPC
- End use of the water: Human consumption
- Population: 4 million people