East Port Said Desalination
Seawater RO, 150,000 m3/day, expandable to 250,000 m3/day in Egypt.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- Port Said
- Coordinates
- 31.250, 32.320
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 150,000 m3/day, expandable to 250,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$130 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Government of Egypt, through the Armament Authority of the Egyptian Armed Forces; technical supervision by the Engineering Authority water department
- Contractor
- Metito and Orascom Construction joint venture
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Government
- Award or start year
- 2021
- Commissioned
- 2021
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2021-06
Metito and Orascom Construction announce delivery of the plant
Sources
3 references
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- Metito, East Port Said Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant. metito.com.
- Capacity 150,000 m3/day expandable to 250,000 m3/day; cost USD 130 million; site of 79,000 m2; commissioned and delivered in 2021; primary source of drinking water for almost 1 million residents; pre-treatment by dissolved air flotation and ultrafiltration, pressure exchangers for energy recovery and calcite post-treatment; specific energy reduced from 5.5 to 3.5 kWh/m3. Enterprise, Orascom and Metito deliver East Port Said desalination plant, 7 June 2021. enterpriseam.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.