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Abu Traba Desalination

Thermal MED, 40,000 m3/day in two units of 20,000 m3/day in Libya.

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Country
Libya
Location
Abu Traba
Coordinates
32.649, 20.823
Technology
Thermal MED
Capacity
40,000 m3/day in two units of 20,000 m3/day
Capital cost
—
Stage
Operational
Owner or client
General People's Committee of Electricity, Water and Gas (GPCOEWG)
Contractor
—
Operator
General Desalination Company
Finance
—
Award or start year
2007
Commissioned
2007

Record last checked 2026-09-20.

History

Sources

4 references

Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.

  1. PGESCo, Abu Traba Sea Water Desalination Project (40,000 m3/day). pgesco.com.
  2. Capacity 2 x 20,000 m3/day using multiple effect distillation; client the General People's Committee of Electricity, Water and Gas; completed 2007; PGESCo provided design review, site supervision and project management with equipment inspection, performance testing and technology transfer.
  3. PGESCo, Libya. pgesco.com.
  4. 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.

Confirms Abu Traba at 2 x 20,000 m3/day MED for GPCOEWG, completed 2007, separately from the Zawia, Derna and Sousa plants. Present condition not established; no institutional source consulted reports on it. Coordinates from the OpenStreetMap feature named محطة بوترابة لتحلية المياه on the Tocra to Tolmeitha road in the Al-Marj district, on the Cyrenaican coast.