Mubarak Pumping Station and Sheikh Zayed Canal (Toshka)
Conveyance + pumping, 400 m3/s installed (24 pumps of 16.7 m3/s); about 25 million m3/day lifted in service; Sheikh Zayed Canal about 138 km in Egypt.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- Toshka
- Coordinates
- 22.637, 31.859
- Technology
- Conveyance + pumping
- Capacity
- 400 m3/s installed (24 pumps of 16.7 m3/s); about 25 million m3/day lifted in service; Sheikh Zayed Canal about 138 km
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation
- Contractor
- ABB (complete main electrical works, as subcontractor)
- Operator
- Hitachi Operation & Maintenance Egypt with ICAT during the guarantee period
- Finance
- Government
- Award or start year
- 2005
- Commissioned
- 2005
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1997
Toshka scheme launched
- 2003-12
ABB completes the main electrical works
- 2005
Station enters service
- 2009
End of the operation and maintenance guarantee period
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- ABB, project report, Mubarak Pumping Station, the world's largest, Egypt. library.e.abb.com.
- 24 variable speed pumps totalling 288 MW (24 x 12 MW) and a total discharge of 400 m3/s (24 x 16.7 m3/s); static suction head 56 m; station 145 x 60 x 45 m; end user the Ministry of Public and Water Resources; ABB scope completed December 2003. ICAT, Mubarak Pumping Station. icat.com.eg.
- Client the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation; lifts up to 25 million m3/day out of Lake Nasser; described as the largest irrigation pumping station in the world; operation and maintenance during the guarantee period 2005 to 2009 alongside Hitachi.
- USGS EROS, Earthshots, Pumping Station. eros.usgs.gov.
- 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.
Sheikh Zayed Canal extends about 138 km; 24 vertical pumps in two parallel lines; intake channel 50 m deep.