The plant will be located in the industrial city of Jubail on the Arabian Gulf coast in eastern Saudi Arabia, around 100 kilometres from Dammam. ACCIONA previously built the Jubail desalination plant on the same site.
The plant is currently under construction and is scheduled to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2024. In addition, the BOO (Build-Own-Operate) contract includes a 25-year plant operation period.
With this contract, ACCIONA consolidates itself as one of the main water treatment infrastructure companies in one of the areas with the highest water stress on the planet, the Middle East, and more specifically Saudi Arabia.
Once Jubail 3B is completed, ACCIONA will supply around 2.37 million m3/day of desalinated water using reverse osmosis, consolidating it as the most efficient and sustainable desalination technology with the smallest carbon footprint.
The project will include storage tanks for daily production, as well as a solar energy plant to reduce the consumption of power from the grid. To do this, ACCIONA will also build a photovoltaic solar plant. The EPC contract will also include the construction of 58 kilometres of power lines, an electricity substation and the associated marine works.
ACCIONA will undertake the construction of the entire reverse osmosis system, including the civil works and the pumping of raw water.
General Information
- Location: Al Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Client: Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWCP)
- Type of contract: EPC
- Process: reverse osmosis system
- Flow: 570,000 m3/day.
- Population equivalent: 2,000,000 inhabitants