The Spanish company Abengoa cooperates with SEPCOIII to build a 600,000 m3 / day desalination plant in Saudi Arabia; the second largest plant in the country with reverse osmosis technology. Specifically, the company will be responsible for the engineering, supply and construction of the Jubail 3A reverse osmosis desalination plant, which is located in southern Saudi Arabia in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia, in the northeast of the country.

The capacity of the plant will be the same as the Rabigh III plant already under construction, and will guarantee the supply of drinking water to the eastern provinces, Riyadh and Gasim throughout the year. The project plans to build water tanks and photovoltaic solar farms for storing one day's production, which will reduce the energy consumption of the desalination plant network in a sustainable manner.

Project scope

The scope of the project includes captured seawater, pumps, pretreatment, reverse osmosis system energy recovery, post-treatment, pumping stations, product water storage, wastewater treatment, discharge through drains and solar photovoltaic fields, and related electrical facilities, including 380/33 Construction of kV power substation.

The project is part of the Saudi government ’s plan to promote private participation in the country ’s water industry. The developer alliance consists of ACWA Power Company, Gulf Investment Company and Al Bawani Hydropower Company. The desalinated water will be supplied to the state-owned Saudi Water Cooperative, which is the initiator of the project.

The Jubail plant will be Abengoa ’s third desalination plant in Saudi Arabia and the seventh desalination plant in the Middle East. With it, it has consolidated its leading position in the global desalination field, with an installed capacity of 1.7 million cubic meters per day, which will be expanded to 4.3 million when the implementation is completed.

In the Middle East, Abengoa is currently constructing the world ’s largest reverse osmosis desalination plant, which is located in the Taweelah power and hydroelectric power complex with a capacity of 909,000 cubic meters per day. Desalination plant. The United Arab Emirates has a daily processing capacity of more than 41,000 cubic meters per day, Saudi Arabia's Rabigh III desalination plant also reaches 600,000 cubic meters per day, and Oman's Salalah desalination plant reaches 114,000 cubic meters per day. Editor / Huang Lijun