ACCIONA ramps up its world’s largest desalination plant to full production, located in Saudi Arabia

ACCIONA ramps up its world’s largest desalination plant to full production, located in Saudi Arabia

RIYADH. ACCIONA has achieved a key milestone in the construction of the Al Khobar 2 desalination plant, ramping up production during final testing to full capacity of 630,000 m³ of potable water per day, enough to meet the needs of 3 million people.

The new desalination plant by the East of Saudi Arabia, which is already supplying the water network for Khobar, is one of the largest to be built in the Kingdom and the largest reverse osmosis desalination plant built by ACCIONA worldwide.

The plant is equipped with energy-efficient Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) technology and is a key project in the modernization of Saudi Arabia’s water sector.

The facility will be equipped with reverse osmosis technology and its daily capacity of more than 630,000 m³, makes it one of the biggest in the country and the largest RO plant under EPC scheme awarded in a single shot in KSA.

Javier Nieto, KSA Country Director for the water business, said: “This milestone is the result of good teamwork between the client, our engineers and the construction teams. Now that we are entering the final testing and commissioning stages, we will undertake several tests to make sure everything works perfectly”.

He adds: “We are proud