Jubail Phase 2 SWRO (Jubail RO2)
Seawater RO, 400,000 m3/day in Saudi Arabia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Jubail
- Coordinates
- 26.900, 49.770
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 400,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$132 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, now the Saudi Water Authority
- Contractor
- SEPCO III with Metito
- Operator
- Saudi Water Authority
- Finance
- Saudi government capital budget
- Award or start year
- 2022
- Commissioned
- 2022-02
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2021
Construction and commissioning under way
- 2022-02
Plant commissioned at 400,000 m3/day
- 2022
SWCC reports the phase 1 thermal plant taken out of service as a result
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.
- Ayesa Engineering, Ayesa seal of approval to the Jubail 2 desalination plant, water security for Saudi Arabia. ayesa.com.
- 400,000 m3/day SWRO for SWCC, investment 122 million euros, SEPCO III with Metito for design, engineering, procurement and supervision, Ayesa for design verification and commissioning oversight, serving Riyadh, Dammam and Khobar.
- 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.
records the launch of the Al-Jubail reverse osmosis plant at 400,000 m3/day, replacing the phase 1 thermal plant of 137,729 m3/day, cutting 1.85 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and 37 million MMBTU of gas a year and raising volumes pumped to Riyadh and the Eastern Province by more than 13 per cent. Budget converted from 122 million euros at 1.08 US dollars to the euro.