Barka 4 IWP
Seawater RO, 281,000 m3/day contracted; 280,992 m3/day in the procurer's 2024 register in Oman.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Oman
- Location
- Barka
- Coordinates
- 23.707, 57.974
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 281,000 m3/day contracted; 280,992 m3/day in the procurer's 2024 register
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Barka Desalination Company SAOG; offtaker Nama Power and Water Procurement under a 20-year water purchase agreement
- Contractor
- Suez, design, construction and commissioning
- Operator
- Suez, 20-year operation and maintenance contract
- Finance
- Project finance, build own operate; sponsors Itochu, Suez, Engie and W J Towell
- Award or start year
- 2018
- Commissioned
- 2018-06
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2018-06
Commercial operation on 13 June 2018 at 281,000 m3/day, then the largest desalination plant in Oman
- 2018-10
ITOCHU announces the start of commercial operation of the plant
- 2038
Water purchase agreement expires
Sources
7 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Barka Desalination Company, Plant. barkadesalination.com.
- Located 50 km west of Muscat next to the Batinah Coastal Highway at 23.7074 north and 57.9745 east, double pass split reverse osmosis with energy recovery, in commercial operation since 13 June 2018, built and operated by Veolia as a project founder.
- ITOCHU, ITOCHU announces start of commercial operation of Oman's largest seawater desalination plant in Barka (31 October 2018). itochu.co.jp.
- 281,000 m3 per day, consortium of ITOCHU, Suez, ENGIE and W.J. Towell, 20-year term, build own operate under Oman Power and Water Procurement, dissolved air flotation pretreatment against algal blooms.
- Nama PWP, Contracts. omanpwp.om.
- Barka IV IWP, Barka Desalination Company, shareholders Investments Middle East, Suez Groupe, Kahrabel, W J Towell, commercial operation date 13 June 2018. Nama PWP, Annual report 2024. omanpwp.om.
- 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.
Barka IV IWP, 280,992 m3/day, contract 2018 to 2038, 89 million m3 purchased in 2024. Sources differ on the operating partner, the project company naming Veolia and ITOCHU naming Suez; the two groups' water arms were separated in 2022 and the plant was built under Suez.