Abu Traba Desalination
Thermal MED, 40,000 m3/day in two units of 20,000 m3/day in Libya.
Operational
The record
- 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
- 2007
Plant completed for the General People's Committee of Electricity, Water and Gas
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.
- PGESCo, Abu Traba Sea Water Desalination Project (40,000 m3/day). pgesco.com.
- 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.
- PGESCo, Libya. pgesco.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.
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.