Jeddah Phase 4 MSF (Jeddah IV)
Thermal MSF + power, 50 MIGD (about 227,000 m3/day) from ten MSF units of 5 MIGD in Saudi Arabia.
Out of service
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Jeddah
- Coordinates
- 21.550, 39.117
- Technology
- Thermal MSF + power
- Capacity
- 50 MIGD (about 227,000 m3/day) from ten MSF units of 5 MIGD
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Out of service
- Owner or client
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, now the Saudi Water Authority
- Contractor
- Sasakura Middle East Company carried out the 2004 to 2007 rehabilitation of the ten MSF units; the original builder was not established
- Operator
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, now the Saudi Water Authority
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1981
- Commissioned
- 1981
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 1981
Plant commissioned with ten MSF units of 5 MIGD
- 2004-12
Sasakura Middle East starts a SR 222 million rehabilitation of the ten units
- 2007-06
Rehabilitation completed, described as extending plant life by fifteen years
- 2019
Production system decommissioned as part of the move off liquid fuel
Sources
10 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Saline Water Desalination Research Institute (O. A. Hamed), Evolution of Thermal Desalination Processes. kh.aquaenergyexpo.com.
- its table of evolutionary developments of MSF plants gives Jeddah-IV as 1981 with ten units of 5 MIGD. O. A. Hamed and others (SWCC Research and Development Centre), SWCC MSF Desalination Plants: Current Status and Future Prospects, Saudi Engineering Conference 2002, hosted by KFUPM. faculty.kfupm.edu.sa.
- its Table 1 dates Jeddah IV to 1981 and lists it among the extraction condensing turbine cogeneration plants at a power to water ratio of 14.7 MW per MIGD, which establishes that the station produced power as well as water.
- Saudipedia (Saudi Ministry of Media national encyclopaedia), Production of Desalinated Water in Saudi Arabia. saudipedia.com.
- states that the authority continued to advance its technologies "by decommissioning the Jeddah (Phase IV) and Yanbu (Phase I) production systems, which used liquid fuel, in 2019". Sasakura Middle East Company, Jeddah Plants Phase 4 Rehabilitation. sasakurame.com.
- owner Saline Water Conversion Corporation, December 2004 to June 2007, SR 222 million, replacement of tube bundles, tube sheets, tube support plates and tie rods in ten MSF desalination units and redesign of the venting and vacuum system, described as extending plant life by fifteen years.
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Annual Report 2022 (English), Production Plants Map, p. 73. swcc.gov.sa.
- carries no Jeddah phase 4 entry, and SHARAKAT's seven year statement of March 2026 carries none either, both consistent with the 2019 decommissioning.
- Coordinates from OpenStreetMap way 766217933, Jeddah Power and Desalination Plant. openstreetmap.org.
- 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.
the SWCC Jeddah complex rather than a separately mapped phase 4 site.