El-Remeila (Marsa Matrouh) Desalination
Seawater RO, 125,000 m3/day across the complex: 48,000 m3/day at El-Remeila 1 and 2, 12,000 m3/day at El-Remeila 3 and 65,000 m3/day at El-Remeila 4, which can be doubled to 130,000 m3/day in Egypt.
The record
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- Marsa Matrouh
- Coordinates
- 31.340, 27.350
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 125,000 m3/day across the complex: 48,000 m3/day at El-Remeila 1 and 2, 12,000 m3/day at El-Remeila 3 and 65,000 m3/day at El-Remeila 4, which can be doubled to 130,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Matrouh Drinking Water Company
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- —
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
No dated milestones recorded yet. They are added as each is confirmed against a public announcement.
Sources
15 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Al-Watan, Matrouh Water: El-Remeila 4 starts operating next month at 65,000 cubic metres a day, 27 November 2024. elwatannews.com.
- Ibrahim Khaled, chairman of the Matrouh drinking water company, said the new El-Remeila 4 seawater desalination plant was being finished with three water tanks, sand and cartridge filters and desalination units.
- Its transmission works comprise an 800 mm main 10 km long with two road crossings and a rail crossing at kilometre 8 east of Matrouh.
- The plant would begin pumping the following month at 65,000 m3/day, able to rise to 130,000 m3/day.
- Its cost reached 2.8 billion Egyptian pounds including the transmission lines and the power supply feeding it, and it lifts the city's desalination capacity to 149,000 m3/day, the other four plants producing 84,000 m3/day of which El-Remeila 1, 2 and 3 give 60,000 m3/day and the Bagoush plant 24,000 m3/day.
- The Cleopatra beach plant was being expanded to 6,000 m3/day and plants also stand at El-Negeila, Al-Sallum and Sidi Barani.
- Youm7, Details of the El-Remeila seawater desalination complex in Matrouh governorate, 9 August 2026, reporting a Ministry of Housing video. youm7.com.
- El-Remeila 1 and 2 work at a design capacity of 48,000 m3/day with 8 desalination units and tanks holding 20,000 m3, El-Remeila 3 produces 12,000 m3/day, and El-Remeila 4 has 4 production units reaching 65,000 m3/day with scope to double to 130,000 m3/day.
- The Ministry of Housing presentation treats all four as part of the working complex.
- No page opened gives an exact commissioning date for El-Remeila 4, which was announced in November 2024 for the following month.
- Budget is left blank because the 2.8 billion pound figure covers the plant with its transmission and power works and no sourced exchange rate for late 2024 was available.
- Coordinates added on 20 September 2026, approximate.
- Egypt's national projects map carries a location link for the complex on its El-Remeila 1 and 2 page. egy-map.com.
- and its El-Remeila 3 page. egy-map.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.
Both centre on 31.3399 27.3455 at zoom 14 and place the plants on the seashore in the Remeila area east of Marsa Matrouh on 45,000 square metres. The view does not resolve a footprint, so the coordinate is given to two decimals. Reverse geocoding returns Marsa Matrouh in Matrouh governorate and the point lies 0.16 km from the OpenStreetMap coastline.