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Duqm Desalination

Seawater RO + power, 36,000 m3/day alongside 326 MW; the marine intake and outfall were sized for a future 150,000 m3/day in Oman.

Operational

The record

Country
Oman
Location
Duqm
Coordinates
19.727, 57.676
Technology
Seawater RO + power
Capacity
36,000 m3/day alongside 326 MW; the marine intake and outfall were sized for a future 150,000 m3/day
Capital cost
—
Stage
Operational
Owner or client
Marafiq, the Duqm special economic zone utility, owned by the OQ Group and Gulf Energy Development
Contractor
Tedagua, Grupo Cobra, design and construction
Operator
Marafiq
Finance
Corporate, utility owned and operated within the Duqm special economic zone
Award or start year
2024
Commissioned
—

Record last checked 2026-09-18.

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. Tedagua, Duqm desalination plant. tedagua.com.
  2. Client Marafiq, 36,000 m3/day of reverse osmosis capacity with marine intake and outfall sized for a future 150,000 m3/day, process water for a combined cycle plant of 183 plus 25 MW within the Duqm special economic area, oversized marine works to serve the neighbouring refinery and petrochemical complex.
  3. Oman Observer, Tender launched for 45 ml/d desalination plant in Duqm (1 December 2024). omanobserver.om.
  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.

Marafiq's existing Duqm facility has 326 MW of power and 36,000 m3 of water a day serving the Duqm refinery and the Ras Markaz oil storage station, and Marafiq, jointly owned by the OQ Group and Gulf Energy of Thailand, has tendered a further 45,000 m3/day reverse osmosis plant for a steel maker in the zone and also runs the zone's drinking water system. Location from OpenStreetMap, the node named Duqm SEZ Marafiq power station. No commissioning date is published by either source, so that field is left blank.