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Saudi Arabia awards Shuqaiq 4, Shuaiba 5 desalination projects

December 13, 2020 SaudiGulf Projects Water

Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) announced in a statement that, it has signed contracts for the construction of Shuqaiq 4, Shuaiba 5 desalination projects.

The combined capacity of the plants will be one million cubic meters.

Shuqaiq 4 – 400,000 cm/d
Shuaiba 5 – 600,000 cm/d

Saudi Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture Abdulrahman Al Fadhley, who is also the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saline Water Conversion Corporation, signed the contracts. The signing ceremony was attended by the Governor of Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Abdullah Al-Abdul Kareem.

Shuqaiq 4 Desalination Project has been awarded to the Consortium of Spain’s Acciona Agua and Saudi Arabia’s Al-Rashid Trading & Contracting Co.(RTCC). (Read: Acciona, RTCC secures $500 million Al Khobar 2 desalination plant)

Shuaiba 5 Desalination Project has been awarded to the consortium of Saudi Arabia’s Advanced Water Technology (AWT) and Rawafid Industrial.

As per the statement, the new project aims to reduce the cost of producing a cubic meter of desalinated water to SR1.2 or less and to reduce the electricity consumption to less than 2.75 kilowatts/hr per cubic meter.

The projects are also part of the initiative to maximize the utilization of assets by replacing thermal technologies for plants with the economical and more qualitative reverse osmosis technology, with aim to double the production and supply of desalinated water in order to cut the cost by SR8.8 billion annually.

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