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plant built by Abengoa to date, with a total
capacity of 250,000 m3/day. Abengoa will
partner with Fisia Italiampianti -a company with
relevance in desalination and water treatment-
to form a consortium for this project which has
a total estimated value of 240 M€.
Abengoa and Fisia Italiampianti will be
responsible for the development of the
engineering, supply and construction of the
new plant. The end client is Saline Water
Conversion Corporation (SWCC); the state-
owned water desalination company in Saudi
Arabia who is responsible for the desalination
of seawater producing electric power and
supplying various regions in the Kingdom with
desalinated water. As part of its objectives in
desalination, in 2020, SWCC plans to increase
its desalination capacity in the country from
5.1 to 7.3 million m 3 /day in order to satisfy
increasing demand.
The Shuaiba-III complex is the largest
desalination complex in the world, supplying
water to the areas of Jeddah and Makkah, and
the plant to be developed by Abengoa will be
located approx. 90 km south of Jeddah. It will
help to increase the desalination capacity of
Shuaiba III, which is currently 150,000 m 3 /day
via reverse osmosis, and 850,000 m 3 /day via
multi-stage flash evaporation. With this new
project, the complex will be able to desalinate
up to 400,000 m 3 /day: equivalent to the water
contained in more than 400 Olympic sized
swimming pools, and thereby ensuring the
stable supply of potable quality water for the
cities of Makkah, Jeddah, Taif and Al-Baha.
This will be the second expansion project to
be carried out on Shuaiba-III. In 2009, the first
phase was carried out when reverse osmosis
technology was introduced.
With this new contract, Abengoa conso