Sfax Seawater Desalination
Seawater RO, 100,000 m3/day, expandable to 200,000 m3/day in Tunisia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Sfax
- Coordinates
- 34.740, 10.760
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 100,000 m3/day, expandable to 200,000 m3/day
- Capital cost
- US$400 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- SONEDE
- Contractor
- Metito-led consortium with Orascom Construction and Cobra (Tedagua)
- Operator
- Metito consortium (first two years O&M), then SONEDE
- Finance
- JICA loan of about 800 million dinars, with Tunisian state budget
- Award or start year
- 2021
- Commissioned
- 2024-07
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2021-09
EPC contract to Metito, Orascom and Cobra consortium
- 2024-07
First 25,000 m3/day unit in service
- 2024-10
Full capacity of 100,000 m3/day reached
- 2026-06
Official inauguration at Gargour
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.
- Smart Water Magazine, A consortium led by Metito will build the Sfax seawater desalination plant in Tunisia, 14 Sep 2021. smartwatermagazine.com.
- Webdo, Sfax: Gargour officiellement inauguree, 19 Jun 2026. webdo.tn.
- Kapitalis, Entree en service d'une usine de dessalement a Sfax, 20 Jun 2026. kapitalis.com.
- Orascom Construction, Sfax Seawater Desalination Plant. orascom.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.