Jubail 5 SWRO (Jubail 2 Replacement)
Seawater RO, 1,000,000 m3/day in Saudi Arabia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Jubail
- Coordinates
- 26.897, 49.773
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 1,000,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, now the Saudi Water Authority
- Contractor
- Saudi Services for Electro Mechanic Works (SSEM) with Metito Saudi
- Operator
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, now the Saudi Water Authority
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2021
- Commissioned
- 2025
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2021
SWCC contracts SSEM and Metito Saudi to replace the Jubail phase 2 assets with reverse osmosis
- 2022
SWCC lists the replacement of Al-Jubail plant 2 at up to one million m3/day among its coming projects
- 2025
Commercial operation at one million m3/day
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.
- SHARAKAT (Saudi Water Partnership Company), 7 Year Statement 2025-2031, March 2026, Riyadh, Eastern Province and Qassim table of current and under-development sources. sharakat.com.sa.
- lists "Jubail 5 (Jubail 2 RO-REPLACMENT)" as on production with a commercial operation date of 2025, a date out of 2060, a design capacity of 1,000,000 m3/day, a production factor of 0.98 and an export capacity of 980,000 m3/day; the source is given as MEWA. Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Annual Report 2022 (English), p. 79. swcc.gov.sa.
- lists among the projects it was then about to launch "Replacing Al-Jubail plant (2) with a design capacity of up to one million cubic meters per day". Saudipedia (Saudi Ministry of Media national encyclopaedia), Production of Desalinated Water in Saudi Arabia. saudipedia.com.
- states that SWCC signed a contract in 2021 with Saudi Services for Electro Mechanic Works (SSEM) and Metito Saudi Ltd to replace the outdated technologies and assets of the al-Jubayl phase 2 system with reverse osmosis, producing one million m3 a day for Riyadh province and set to start production in 2024. Published start dates therefore differ, 2024 in Saudipedia and 2025 in SHARAKAT's table; the SHARAKAT commercial operation date is used because it is the later and more specific statement.
- This is a different scheme from the register's existing Jubail Phase 2 SWRO (Jubail RO2) row, which is the 400,000 m3/day plant built by SEPCO III with Metito and commissioned in 2022. Coordinates from OpenStreetMap way 555199312, Jubail 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 state fleet's Jubail complex, the same site the register uses for the Jubail phase 1 and phase 2 rows.