Zawiya Desalination
Thermal MED, 80,000 m3/day in four units of 20,000 m3/day in Libya.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Libya
- Location
- Zawiya
- Coordinates
- 32.790, 12.670
- Technology
- Thermal MED
- Capacity
- 80,000 m3/day in four units of 20,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL)
- Contractor
- ENKA, with Sidem (Veolia) supplying the MED evaporators, boilers and auxiliaries
- Operator
- General Desalination Company
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2006
- Commissioned
- 2012-02
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2006-06
EPC contract period began
- 2012-02
Contract period ended
- 2024-11
Libya Observer reports the plant running at about 25 per cent of capacity
Sources
8 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- ENKA, Zawia Desalination Plant Project. enka.com.
- Client GECOL; site at Zawiya, about 60 km west of Tripoli; 4 x 20,000 m3/day water production plant using multi-effect distillation with heavy fuel oil, natural gas and light fuel oil firing; contract period June 2006 to February 2012; scope included a 142 km water distribution network with storage tanks and pumping stations.
- PGESCo, Libya. pgesco.com.
- Lists a Zawia desalination plant of 80,000 m3/day for the General People's Committee of Electricity, Water and Gas with a 2010 completion date, which does not match ENKA's February 2012 handover.
- Libya Observer, Dbeibah addresses Libya's water desalination challenges, 7 Nov 2024. libyaobserver.ly.
- Reports Tobruk running at 20 per cent of capacity, Derna at 50 per cent after maintenance, Susah at about 25 per cent, the Zliten plants not operating and Zawiya at 25 per cent, with the prime minister ordering a supply strategy.
- Reports the Zawiya plant running at 25 per cent of capacity in November 2024. Coordinates are the Zawiya power station site, given as 32.7883 north and 12.6735 east by the Global Energy Observatory. globalenergyobservatory.org.
- 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.
An unnamed coastal water works sits on the same ground in OpenStreetMap. The multi-effect plant is fired on heavy fuel oil and gas and the sources place it at the power station, so the figures are given to two decimals.