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Acciona Will Build The Jubail 3b Desalination reverse osmosis system, including the civil works and is expected to enter service sometime this year with
the pumping of raw water.
a treatment capacity of 450,000 m3/day, providing
Plant, Its Sixth In Saudi Arabia The project will include storage tanks for daily a service to serve a population equivalent of two
production, as well as a solar energy plant to reduce million. It will also have a photovoltaic plant to reduce
the consumption of power from the grid. To do this, specific energy consumption.
FINANCIAL CLOSURE SWPC has announced the financial closure of the
SWPC has announced the financial closure of the project, which is estimated at US $ 692 million (612 ACCIONA will also build a photovoltaic solar plant. ACCIONA was also awarded a 460-million turnkey
project, which is estimated at US $ 692 million (612 million). The EPC contract will also include the construction of contract for the Al Khobar RO2 plant in Khobar, on the
million) The entry into service of the plant is planned for Q1 58 kilometres of power lines, an electricity substation east coast of the country, around 400 kilometres from
HIGH CAPACITY 2024, and it will be handed over under a 25-year BOO and the associated marine works. the capital Riyadh. This facility will have a capacity
The plant will have a daily capacity of 570,000 m3 to (Build-Own-Operate) agreement of just over 630,000 m3/day, making it one of the
supply 2 million people With this contract, ACCIONA consolidates itself as one REVERSE OSMOSIS biggest in the country and the largest reverse osmosis
LEADERSHIP of the main water treatment infrastructure companies A few months ago the publicly-owned Saline Water plant in the world built under the EPC modality in a
Once the plant is completed, ACCIONA will supply in one of the areas with the highest water stress on Conversion Corporation (SWCC) of Saudi Arabia single phase.
around 2.37 million m3/day of desalinated water in the planet, the Middle East, and more specifically awarded ACCIONA and its partner RTCC the design In July 2018 the company was also awarded a contract
Saudi Arabia using reverse osmosis technology. Saudi Arabia. Once Jubail 3 is completed, ACCIONA and construction of the Shuqaiq 1 desalination plant for around 200 million for the construction and start-
will supply around 2.37 million m3/day of desalinated for US$384 million (315 million). The plant, with a up of the Al Khobar RO1 desalination plant, with a
Together with its partner SEPCOIII, ACCIONA will water using reverse osmosis, consolidating it as daily capacity of 400,000 m3, will help to improve capacity of 210,000 m3/day. Located near Al Khobar
undertake the construction of the Jubail 3B desalination the most efficient and sustainable desalination drinking water supplies and offset the water shortages RO2, it would provide a service to a population of 1
plant. Its capacity of 570,000 m3/day will supply 2 technology with the smallest carbon footprint. suffered by people living in south-western Saudi million.
million people in the cities of Riyadh and Qassim. The plant will be located in the industrial city of Jubail Arabia, providing a new source of drinking water for It has also designed and built the above-mentioned
ACCIONA and its partner are the main EPC contractors on the Arabian Gulf coast in eastern Saudi Arabia, domestic, urban, agricultural and industrial use. Al Jubail RO4 seawater desalination plant for Marafiq.
in the project, which will be developed and financed around 100 kilometres from Dammam. ACCIONA Last year, a 25-year, 530-million contract was With a daily capacity of 100,000 m3, it serves both
by a consortium consisting of ENGIE, NESMA and previously built the Jubail RO4 desalination plant awarded for the design, construction, operation and the city and the nearby industrial complex, in the east
AJLAN for the publicly-owned Saudi Water Partnership (capacity 100,000 m3/day) on the same site. maintenance of the Shuqaiq3 desalination plant in of the country.
Company (SWCP). ACCIONA will undertake the construction of the entire the same area. It is currently under construction and

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