Jubail Phase 2 MSF (Jubail II)
Thermal MSF + power, 950,000 m3/day and 1,225 MW on the Saudi Water Authority production systems page in September 2026; 1,035,000 m3/day in the SWCC 2022 annual report; built as a 175 MIGD plant, about 795,000 m3/day in Saudi Arabia.
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Jubail
- Coordinates
- 26.900, 49.770
- Technology
- Thermal MSF + power
- Capacity
- 950,000 m3/day and 1,225 MW on the Saudi Water Authority production systems page in September 2026; 1,035,000 m3/day in the SWCC 2022 annual report; built as a 175 MIGD plant, about 795,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$720 million
- 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
- 1983
- Commissioned
- 1983
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 1981
Construction started under a SR 2.7 billion contract
- 1983
Commissioned, the first SWCC cogeneration plant to use back-pressure turbines
- 1984
Construction period closed
- 2021
SWCC contracts Saudi Services for Electro Mechanic Works and Metito Saudi to replace the ageing assets of the Jubail phase 2 system with reverse osmosis
- 2022
Listed by SWCC at 1,035,000 m3/day, the largest single plant in the SWCC fleet
- 2023
Reverse osmosis production starts on the Jubail phase 2 system at 400,000 m3/day
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, Annual Report 2022 (English), Production Plants Map, p. 73. swcc.gov.sa.
- gives Al-Jubail 2 at 1,035,000 m3/day.
- 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 Jubail II to 1983 and records it as the first SWCC cogeneration plant with back-pressure turbines, power to water ratio 6.8 MW/MIGD. ABCE project list, Al Jubail Desalination Plant Phase 2. abce.com.sa.
- Client SWCC, project cost SR 2.7 billion, period 1981-84, 175 MIGD plant designed and managed with Catalytic, USA. Budget converted at the pegged rate of SAR 3.75 to US$1. SHARAKAT, 7 Year Statement 2025-2031, March 2026. sharakat.com.sa.
- does not list this plant among the on-production sources for the Eastern Province and Qassim, but Sharakat tabulates only privately procured independent water projects, not the plants the Saudi Water Authority owns and runs, so the omission carries no implication of retirement.
- The Saudi Water Authority production systems page,. swcc.gov.sa.
- read in a browser on 20 September 2026 because curl meets a human verification wall, still lists Jubail 2 as a multi-stage flash system dated 1983 at 950,000 m3/day and 1,225 MW, alongside Jubail reverse osmosis 2 of 2022 at 400,000 m3/day.
- Saudipedia (Ministry of Media), Production of Desalinated Water in Saudi Arabia. saudipedia.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.
records a 2021 contract with Saudi Services for Electro Mechanic Works and Metito Saudi to replace outdated technologies and assets in the Jubail (Phase II) system with reverse osmosis, and the launch of Jubail (Phase II) reverse osmosis production in 2023 at 400,000 m3/day. The thermal plant has therefore not been retired and no retirement date exists to be found.