Sharqiyah SWRO
Seawater RO, 80,000 m3/day original plant; about 115,000 m3/day average after the 2015 extension in Oman.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Oman
- Location
- Sur
- Coordinates
- 22.570, 59.530
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 80,000 m3/day original plant; about 115,000 m3/day average after the 2015 extension
- Capital cost
- US$200 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Nama PWP
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Bahwan Veolia Water
- Finance
- Project finance
- Award or start year
- 2007
- Commissioned
- 2009-10
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2007-01
Water purchase agreement executed on 17 January 2007 for an 80,000 m3/day build own operate plant at Sur
- 2009-10
Initial project reaches commercial operation on 8 October 2009
- 2015-03
Extension reaches commercial operation on 25 March 2015
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.
- Sharqiyah Desalination Company, Sharqiyah Desalination (company profile). sharqiyahdesalination.om.
- Reverse osmosis plant at Sur averaging about 115,000 m3/day for more than 375,000 residents, water purchase agreement executed 17 January 2007 and amended 30 July 2013, commercial operation of the initial project on 8 October 2009, extension financial close 25 December 2014 and commercial operation confirmed 25 March 2015, shareholders Veolia Middle East 35.75 per cent, Middle East Investment Company 29.25 per cent, public 20.53 per cent and the Omani civil service pension fund 14.47 per cent.
- Veolia, Sur and Sharqiyah region SWRO. near-middle-east.veolia.com.
- Build own operate award in 2007 for 80,000 m3/day with a 48,000 m3/day extension awarded in 2014, operations and maintenance by Bahwan Veolia, offtaker the Public Authority for Electricity and Water.
- A second Omani plant of about 80,000 m3/day also carries the Sharqiyah name, Al Asilah IWP at Al Aseelah in South Sharqiyah, in service from April 2021: JGC Corporation, Implementation of Seawater Desalination Business in Oman (23 July 2018). jgc.com.
- 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.
This record follows its own city and coordinates and describes the Sur plant.