Great Man-Made River Al-Kufra-Tazerbo Link
Fossil-aquifer conveyance, Design 1.68 million m3/day; 385 km prestressed concrete main line; 300 production wells and 14 monitoring wells in the Kufra field in Libya.
The record
- Country
- Libya
- Location
- Al-Kufra to Tazerbo
- Coordinates
- —
- Technology
- Fossil-aquifer conveyance
- Capacity
- Design 1.68 million m3/day; 385 km prestressed concrete main line; 300 production wells and 14 monitoring wells in the Kufra field
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Stalled
- Owner or client
- Great Man-Made River Authority
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Great Man-Made River Authority
- Finance
- Libyan state
- Award or start year
- 2009
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2009-01
Implementation began
- 2011-02
All work suspended from 17 February 2011 after contractors left the country
- 2016-12
Authority still describes the remaining components as in contracting procedures
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.
- Great Man-Made River Authority, Al-Kufra - Tazerbo system. gmra.com.ly.
- Designed to carry 1.68 million m3/day from the Kufra well field through a 385 km prestressed concrete line to the Tazerbo and Sarir connection point in order to increase supply to the Jabal al-Akhdar area; 300 production wells and 14 monitoring wells; implementation began at the beginning of 2009 and the main line reached a high completion rate; all work suspended from 17 February 2011 because contractors left and because of the damage suffered, with the remaining components still in contracting procedures.
- Great Man-Made River Authority, History and evolution of GMMR. gmra.com.ly.
- 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.
Authority created by Law 11 of 1983 with funding under Law 10 of 1983; groundbreaking at Sarir on 28 August 1984; Brega pipe plant opened 28 August 1986; second phase launched 26 August 1989; Ajdabiya reservoir first received water 11 September 1989; Omar Mukhtar and Gardabiya reservoirs 4 September 1991; water reached the Sidi Assaiah reservoir in Tripoli 28 August 1996; fourth phase contract signed 10 October 2001; design capacity 4 million m3/day rising to 6.4 million m3/day when complete.