Shuaibah 6 Desalination Project
Seawater RO, 500,000 m3/day in Saudi Arabia.
Under construction
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Shuaiba (Al-Lith, Makkah region)
- Coordinates
- 20.670, 39.530
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 500,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Under construction
- Owner or client
- Saudi Water Authority
- Contractor
- Rawafid Industrial Company
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2025
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2025-10
SWA hands the site over to Rawafid Industrial Company on 29 October and construction begins
- 2026-03
SHARAKAT's seven year statement lists a Shuaibah 6 under planning at 600,000 m3/day with commercial operation in 2032
Sources
9 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Saudi Water Authority, SWA Launches Shuaibah (6) Project to Strengthen Water Security in Makkah and the Holy Sites, 29 October 2025. swa.gov.sa.
- the authority states that it "has officially handed over the site of the Shuaibah Phase 6 Project to Rawafid Industrial Company, the project's contractor, marking the commencement of construction works", that the facility will have a production capacity of 500,000 cubic metres per day, and that the handover ceremony reviewed the scope, implementation plan and construction timeline.
- No budget figure is published, so that field is blank.
- SHARAKAT (Saudi Water Partnership Company), 7 Year Statement 2025-2031, March 2026. sharakat.com.sa.
- lists a Shuaibah 6 under planning and studying with a commercial operation date of 2032 and a capacity of 600,000 m3/day.
- The two do not agree on capacity, timing or status.
- The SWA figures are used because SWA is the procurer of the plant described here and its statement is the more specific and the more recent for this scheme; the SHARAKAT entry may be a separate private-sector plant sharing the name, as happened with Shuqaiq 4. The technology is described by SWA only as environmentally friendly desalination; reverse osmosis is the technology reported for the contract by MEED, whose pages are bot-walled and are not relied on, and is the technology of every other plant in SWA's western coast replacement programme.
- Coordinates are those of the Shuaibah power and desalination complex, OpenStreetMap way 205485380, Shoaiba 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.
rather than a separately confirmed phase 6 site.