Salalah IWPP
Seawater RO + power, 68,190 m3/day contracted (15 MIGD, 2,841 m3/hour) alongside 445 MW contracted from 489 MW net in Oman.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Oman
- Location
- Mirbat
- Coordinates
- 17.037, 54.491
- Technology
- Seawater RO + power
- Capacity
- 68,190 m3/day contracted (15 MIGD, 2,841 m3/hour) alongside 445 MW contracted from 489 MW net
- Capital cost
- US$1 billion
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Sembcorp Salalah Power and Water Company SAOG; offtaker Nama Power and Water Procurement for supply to Nama Dhofar Services
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Sembcorp Salalah Power and Water Company
- Finance
- Project finance, build own operate on a 15-year PWPA, extended by a further ten years beyond its first-quarter 2027 expiry; Sembcorp Utilities and Oman Investment Corporation with a public float on the Muscat Securities Market
- Award or start year
- 2012
- Commissioned
- 2012-07
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2009-11
Sembcorp signs the contract for the US$1 billion Salalah independent water and power project
- 2012-03
Desalination plant reaches operational readiness
- 2012-07
Commercial operation date recorded as 25 July 2012
- 2026
PWPA renewed for a further ten years beyond its first-quarter 2027 expiry
Sources
6 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Sembcorp Salalah Power and Water Company, Company profile. sembcorpsalalah.com.om.
- Gas fired combined cycle plant of 489 MW net, 445 MW contracted, with a seawater reverse osmosis plant of 15 MIGD or about 69,000 m3 a day, between Taqah and Mirbat about 50 km from Salalah city in Dhofar, full commercial operation from May 2012, 15-year power and water purchase agreement with Oman Power and Water Procurement, about US$1 billion invested.
- Nama PWP, Contracts. omanpwp.om.
- Salalah 1 IWPP, Sembcorp Salalah SAOC, shareholders Sembcorp Utilities, Oman Investment Corporation and public shareholders, 445 MW and 2,841.25 m3/hour, commercial operation date 25 July 2012. Nama PWP, Water 7-Year Statement 2026-2032 (Issue 20). omanpwp.om.
- Salalah IWPP contracted at 68,190 m3/day (15 MIGD) of RO capacity, commissioned 2012, PWPA renewed for a further ten-year term after its original expiry at the end of the first quarter of 2027. 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.
Salalah IWPP, 445 MW and 68,184 m3/day, 87 per cent average water capacity utilisation in 2024. Sources differ on start of operation, May 2012 in the company profile against 25 July 2012 in the procurer's contract record; the procurer's date is used. Location from OpenStreetMap, the node for Sembcorp Salalah Power and Water in Mirbat wilayat.