Cap Djinet 1 SWRO
Seawater RO, 100,000 m3/day at under 3.4 kWh/m3, with a 50,000 m3/day pumping station at 20 bar in Algeria.
The record
- Country
- Algeria
- Location
- Cap Djinet
- Coordinates
- 36.844, 3.687
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 100,000 m3/day at under 3.4 kWh/m3, with a 50,000 m3/day pumping station at 20 bar
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Algerian Energy Company
- Contractor
- Inima, then part of Grupo OHL and now GS Inima, with Aqualia of Grupo FCC
- Operator
- GS Inima with Aqualia
- Finance
- Build, own and operate with a 25-year operation and maintenance contract; the November 2005 tender band was 100 to 140 million dollars
- Award or start year
- 2005
- Commissioned
- 2012
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2005-11
Contract awarded to Inima and Aqualia
- 2012-01
Plant entered service
- 2019-11
Selected by the United Nations as a public-private partnership best-practice case
Sources
8 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Algerian Desalination Company, Cap Djinet I. aec.dz.
- 100,000 m3/day on a 40,000 m2 site at Cap Djinet in Boumerdes, partners GS Inima and Aqualia.
- GS Inima, Cap D'Jinet desalination plant. inima.com.
- 100,000 m3/day for the Algerian Energy Company at under 3.4 kWh/m3, with a 50,000 m3/day pumping station at 20 bar; scope covers design, engineering, operation and maintenance.
- MEED, Four awards for new desalination capacity (Nov 2005). meed.com.
- Cap Djinet was awarded in November 2005 at 100,000 m3/day for 100 to 140 million dollars on a build, own and operate basis with a 25-year operation and maintenance contract.
- TecnoAqua, La desaladora argelina de Cap Djinet de Aqualia, ejemplo de buenas practicas para Naciones Unidas (Nov 2019). tecnoaqua.es.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
The United Nations selected the plant as a public-private best-practice case; about 150 local jobs were created. The 2012 commissioning year rests on a single 2021 compilation and is held at medium confidence. Coordinates not recorded: the 300,000 m3/day Cap Djinet 2 plant stands immediately alongside and the OpenStreetMap objects do not separate the two phases. Coordinates from the OpenStreetMap feature named Usine de dessalement d'eau de mer de Cap Djinet at Ouled Ghenim in Djinet, Boumerdes.