Shuaibah Phase 2 MSF (Shoaiba II)
Thermal MSF + power, 455,000 m3/day (100 MIGD), raising the Shuaiba site to 582,689 m3/day and 500 MW in Saudi Arabia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Shuaiba (Al-Lith, Makkah region)
- Coordinates
- 20.670, 39.530
- Technology
- Thermal MSF + power
- Capacity
- 455,000 m3/day (100 MIGD), raising the Shuaiba site to 582,689 m3/day and 500 MW
- Capital cost
- US$1.2 billion
- 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
- 2003
- Commissioned
- 2003-03
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2000
First distillers entered service, each rated 10 MIGD, the largest in the SWCC fleet at the time
- 2003-03
Plant commissioned in full, doubling supply to Makkah and Taif and raising Jeddah supply by 60 per cent
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.
- WaterWorld, Shuaiba Two Project commissioned in Saudi Arabia, 1 April 2003. waterworld.com.
- US$1.2 billion, commissioned 11 March 2003, adds 100 million gallons a day for Jeddah, Makkah and Taif, taking the plant to 582,689 m3/day and 500 MW. Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Annual Report 2022 (English), Production Plants Map, p. 73. swcc.gov.sa.
- gives Al-Shuaiba 2 at 455,000 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.
- 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.
dates Shoaiba-II to 2000 and records its 10 MIGD distillers as the largest single units in the SWCC fleet at the time; the 2000 and 2003 dates are treated as first units and full commissioning.