Al-Khobar Phase 3 MSF (Khobar III)
Thermal MSF + power, 280,000 m3/day in Saudi Arabia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Al-Khobar
- Coordinates
- 26.180, 50.210
- Technology
- Thermal MSF + power
- Capacity
- 280,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, now the Saudi Water Authority
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Saudi Water Authority
- Finance
- Saudi government capital budget
- Award or start year
- 2000
- Commissioned
- 2000
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2000
Commissioned
- 2022
SWCC lists a project to replace the Al-Khobar phase 3 plant among its ongoing works
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.
- O. A. Hamed and others (SWCC R&D Centre), SWCC MSF Desalination Plants: Current Status and Future Prospects, 6th Saudi Engineering Conference, KFUPM, December 2002, Table 1. faculty.kfupm.edu.sa.
- dates Al-Khobar III to 2000, back-pressure turbine cycle, power to water ratio 9.46 MW/MIGD, 16 flash stages.
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Annual Report 2022 (English), Production Plants Map, p. 73. swcc.gov.sa.
- 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.
gives Al-Khobar 3 at 280,000 m3/day and lists a project to replace the Al-Khobar phase 3 plant among ongoing works.