Rayis–Rabigh IWTP
Water transmission pipeline, 500,000 m3/day, 150 km pipeline from Rayis to Rabigh in Saudi Arabia.
Under construction
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Rabigh
- Coordinates
- 22.700, 39.000
- Technology
- Water transmission pipeline
- Capacity
- 500,000 m3/day, 150 km pipeline from Rayis to Rabigh
- Capital cost
- US$641 million
- Stage
- Under construction
- Owner or client
- Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC), 35-year water transmission agreement
- Contractor
- Alkhorayef Water and Power Technologies (50%) and Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios consortium; Tedagua (Grupo Cobra) leads EPC and O&M
- Operator
- Tedagua (Grupo Cobra), O&M lead within the consortium
- Finance
- Project finance, 35-year BOOT; total contract value about SAR 8.4 billion (US$2.24 billion), construction cost SAR 2.4 billion
- Award or start year
- 2023
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2023-03
Three bids received by SWPC
- 2024-03
Financial close achieved, construction cost SAR 2.4 billion
- 2025-04
Named best water project in MENA at IJGlobal Awards 2024
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Argaam, Alkhorayef Water announces financial closing for Rayis-Rabigh pipeline project, 24 March 2024. argaam.com.
- Smart Water Magazine, SWPC announces financial close of Rayis-Rabigh IWTP project, 25 March 2024. smartwatermagazine.com.
- Smart Water Magazine, Three companies bid for Rayis-Rabigh IWTP, 10 March 2023. smartwatermagazine.com.
- Tedagua, Rayis-Rabigh project named water project of the year in the Middle East, 5 May 2025. tedagua.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.
Budget converted from SAR 2.4 billion construction cost at 0.267.