Yanbu Phase 3 MSF (Yanbu III)
Thermal MSF + power, 566,160 m3/day, with about 3,100 MW of power in Saudi Arabia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Location
- Yanbu
- Coordinates
- 23.860, 38.380
- Technology
- Thermal MSF + power
- Capacity
- 566,160 m3/day, with about 3,100 MW of power
- Capital cost
- US$1.2 billion
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, now the Saudi Water Authority
- Contractor
- Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction (desalination EPC); Samsung Engineering with Shanghai Electric and Al-Toukhi (power island); SEPCO III
- Operator
- Saudi Water Authority
- Finance
- Saudi government capital budget
- Award or start year
- 2012
- Commissioned
- 2020-11
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2012-12
Doosan awarded the US$1.2 billion desalination EPC contract by SWCC
- 2016-03
Original completion target
- 2019-03
Power island of five 620 MW steam turbines reported in service
- 2020-11
Desalination plant began operations serving Madinah and Yanbu
Sources
7 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, Desalination contract awarded for Yanbu port in Saudi Arabia, 11 December 2012. waterworld.com.
- US$1.2 billion Doosan EPC contract for 550,000 m3/day of MSF capacity, completion targeted March 2016, alongside a US$3 billion 3,100 MW power plant.
- Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Annual Report 2022 (English), Production Plants Map, p. 73. swcc.gov.sa.
- gives Yanbu 3 at 566,160 m3/day.
- US-Saudi Business Council, Water in Saudi Arabia: Desalination, Wastewater, and Privatization, 7 January 2021. ussaudi.org.
- Yanbu III cost US$1.3 billion, 550,000 m3/day, began operations November 2020. GlobalData via Power Technology, power plant profile. power-technology.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.
gives March 2019 for the 3,100 MW power island (bot-walled to curl, returns 403, readable in a browser).