Salalah 3 SWRO
Seawater RO, 113,650 m3/day (25 MIGD) in Oman.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Oman
- Location
- Salalah
- Coordinates
- 17.020, 54.090
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 113,650 m3/day (25 MIGD)
- Capital cost
- US$210 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Dhofar Desalination Company (ACWA Power, Veolia, DIDIC); offtaker Nama PWP
- Contractor
- Fisia Italimpianti and Abengoa (EPC)
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Project finance
- Award or start year
- 2021
- Commissioned
- 2021
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2018-04
Oman Power and Water Procurement awards a 20-year water purchase agreement to a consortium of ACWA Power, Veolia and Dhofar International
- 2021
Plant completed at 113,650 m3/day with engineering and construction by Fisia Italimpianti and Abengoa
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Webuild, Water desalination plant in Salalah (project page). webuildgroup.com.
- 113,650 m3/day of reverse osmosis capacity for a consortium led by ACWA Power with Veolia and Dhofar International for Investment and Development, engineering and construction by Fisia Italimpianti with Abengoa, contract value US$100 million, completed 2021. Veolia, Sultanate of Oman: Veolia will desalinate 95,000 m3 of seawater a day to supply the Dhofar region (19 April 2018). veolia.com.
- Salalah IWP awarded by Oman Power and Water Procurement under a 20-year contract to ACWA Power, Veolia and DIDIC through Dhofar Desalination Company, the first standalone water desalination project in Dhofar.
- DMS Projects, Dhofar Desalination Company, Salalah 3 IWP. dmsprojects.net.
- 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.
25 MIGD or about 113,000 m3/day, status completed. Sponsors and trade press call the plant Salalah IWP; the Salalah 3 label comes from the procurer's contract naming.