SWPC celebrates Shuaiba 3 IWP project safety milestone
RIYADH, 2 days ago
Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC) has announced that the developers of the Shuaiba 3 Independent Water Production Plant have achieved a major safety milestone by clocking 12 million safe working hours since its launch.
The project is being implemented by a consortium led by Saudi utility major Acwa Power (with a 68% equity stake) along with its key member Water and Electricity Holding Company (Badeel), a unit of Saudi sovereign wealth fund PIF, with the remaining 32% stake.
The project, being set up at an investment of $821 million, is the first conversion project from Multi-Stage Flash (MSF) desalination technology to sea water reverse osmosis (SWRO), which is in line with the KSA Vision 2030 in terms of achieving zero carbon emissions, fuel saving and increased plant availability.
With a production capacity of up to 600,000 cu m per day, the station will feed the water transmission system covering the Jeddah and Makkah regions, said SWPC in a statement.
SWPC has already sealed a 25-year water purchase agreement (WPA) valued at nearly SAR3 billion with the Acwa Power-led consortium.
Saudi Water Partnership Company CEO Eng Khaled Al Qureshi commended the entire project team on their while on a site inspection visit.
He later took part in an event where the workers were falicitated for achieving the key safety milestone.-TradeArabia News Service
