Ain Sokhna Desalination Complex
Seawater desalination, 136,000 m3/day inaugurated in 2019 (100,000 and 36,000 m3/day); 164,000 m3/day announced for the complex in Egypt.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- Ain Sokhna, Suez
- Coordinates
- 29.640, 32.310
- Technology
- Seawater desalination
- Capacity
- 136,000 m3/day inaugurated in 2019 (100,000 and 36,000 m3/day); 164,000 m3/day announced for the complex
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Armed Forces Engineering Authority; end users the General Authority for the Suez Canal Economic Zone and the Phosphatic and Compound Fertilizers Complex
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Government
- Award or start year
- 2019
- Commissioned
- 2019-11
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2017-11
Armed Forces Engineering Authority announces a 164,000 m3/day plant at Ain Sokhna
- 2019-11
President inaugurates two plants of the complex, 100,000 m3/day for the Suez Canal Economic Zone and 36,000 m3/day for the fertilizers complex
Sources
6 references
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- Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Seawater Desalination Plants in Ain Sokhna, national projects, November 2019. presidency.eg.
- The Arabic text states that this is the largest complex of its kind in Egypt and that two of its plants were inaugurated: 36,000 m3/day for the Phosphatic and Compound Fertilizers Complex at EGP 750 million, and 100,000 m3/day for the General Authority for the Suez Canal Economic Zone at EGP 1.6 billion, together with two 1,400 mm intake lines of 1,200 m and one 1,400 mm brine outfall of 600 m.
- The English version of the same page adds a complex of 512,000 m3/day that the Arabic does not carry.
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- Egypt Independent, Egypt to construct world's largest seawater desalination plant, 15 November 2017. egyptindependent.com.
- 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.
Kamal El-Wazeir, head of the Armed Forces Engineering Authority, put the Ain Sokhna plant at 164,000 m3/day serving the economic zone northwest of the Gulf of Suez.