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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

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.

  1. Saudi Water Authority, SWA Launches Shuaibah (6) Project to Strengthen Water Security in Makkah and the Holy Sites, 29 October 2025. swa.gov.sa.
  2. 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.
  3. No budget figure is published, so that field is blank.
  4. SHARAKAT (Saudi Water Partnership Company), 7 Year Statement 2025-2031, March 2026. sharakat.com.sa.
  5. lists a Shuaibah 6 under planning and studying with a commercial operation date of 2032 and a capacity of 600,000 m3/day.
  6. The two do not agree on capacity, timing or status.
  7. 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.
  8. Coordinates are those of the Shuaibah power and desalination complex, OpenStreetMap way 205485380, Shoaiba power and desalination plant. openstreetmap.org.
  9. 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.