Spanish infrastructure solutions company Acciona and its partner Saudi Arabia’s RTCC have been awarded a contract by Saudi publicly-owned company Saline Water Conversion (SWCC) for the construction of the $500m Al Khobar 2 desalination plant.
The Al Khobar 2 desalination plant, which is planned to be built at Khobar, on the east coast of Saudi Arabia around 400km from Riyadh, is expected to provide services to three million people.
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Featuring reverse osmosis technology, the facility will have a daily capacity of more than 600,000m³, making it one of the biggest of its kind in the country.
In 2019, Acciona was awarded €750m contract by Saudi Arabia’s state-owned Water and Electricity Company (WEC) to finance, design, and construct the Shuqaiq3 desalination plant.
Acciona and its consortium partners Marubeni, Abdul Latif Jameel-CDC and Rawafid Alhadarah Holding are also responsible for the 25-year operation and maintenance of the Shuqaiq3 desalination plant, which is built in the south-west of the country on the Red Sea coast.
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Scheduled for completion in 2021, the Shuqaiq3 desalination plant will have a treatment capacity of 450,000m³ per day, and provide service to a population equivalent of two million. It will also feature a photovoltaic plant to reduce internal energy consumption.
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By GlobalDataAcciona, under a contract that was signed in July 2018, will also build and commission the €200m Al Khobar 1 desalination plant with a treatment capacity of 210,000m³ per day.
Earlier, the Spanish firm built the Al Jubail RO4 seawater desalination plant for the Saudi Arabia utility firm Marafiq. The plant with a capacity of 100,000m³ per day serves both the city and the nearby industrial complex.
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Acciona will build another desalination plant in Saudi Arabia. (Credit: ACCIONA)
