Sohar 1 IWPP
Thermal MSF + power, Desalination retired in 2024. 150,000 m3/day of MSF capacity (33 MIGD) alongside 585 MW while the original PWPA ran; the site now operates as a 405 MW open cycle plant only in Oman.
Out of service
The record
- Country
- Oman
- Location
- Sohar
- Coordinates
- 24.473, 56.633
- Technology
- Thermal MSF + power
- Capacity
- Desalination retired in 2024. 150,000 m3/day of MSF capacity (33 MIGD) alongside 585 MW while the original PWPA ran; the site now operates as a 405 MW open cycle plant only
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Out of service
- Owner or client
- Sohar Power Company SAOG; offtaker Nama Power and Water Procurement
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Suez Tractebel Operation and Maintenance Oman
- Finance
- Project finance, build own operate on a 15-year PWPA from 2007, replaced by a nine-year power-only PPA signed in October 2024; shareholders Kahrabel of Engie, Sogex Oman, MENA Sohar 1 SPV and the Social Protection Fund
- Award or start year
- 2007
- Commissioned
- 2007-05
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2004
Sohar Power Company incorporated after a competitive tender
- 2007-05
Commercial operation of 585 MW and 33 MIGD on 27 May 2007
- 2008-08
Company lists 35 per cent on the Muscat Securities Market
- 2022-03
Original power and water purchase agreement expires
- 2024-03
Power-only operation recorded from 28 March 2024
- 2024-10
Renewed nine-year power purchase agreement signed and the thermal desalination units retired and decommissioned
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.
- Sohar Power Company, About us. soharpower.com.
- Owner of the 585 MW generation and 33 MIGD seawater desalination plant at Sohar, commercial operation reached on 27 May 2007, selling power and water to Oman Power and Water Procurement under a long-term power and water purchase agreement of 15 years, company incorporated in 2004 after a competitive tender, 35 per cent listed on the Muscat Securities Market in August 2008. ENGIE Middle East, Sohar 1, Sohar Power Company. engiemiddleeast.com.
- Now a 405 MW open cycle gas turbine power-only asset after the retirement and decommissioning of its thermal desalination facilities, nine-year renewed power purchase agreement signed in October 2024, O&M by Suez Tractebel Operation and Maintenance Oman.
- OPWP, 7-Year Statement 2016-2022 (Issue 10). omanpwp.om.
- Sohar I has a desalination capacity of 150,000 m3/d (33 MIGD) using MSF units, PWPA expiring March 2022. Nama PWP, Contracts. 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.
Sohar I IPP, Sohar Power Company, 405 MW, commercial operation date 28 March 2024 under the power-only agreement. Location from OpenStreetMap, way named Sohar I Water and Power Plant.