• Shuaibah Water and Electricity Co. "SWEC" (the Shuaibah IWPP): This first of such a transaction ($2.45 billion) in the Kingdom for the Water and Electricity Company is one of the largest combined power and water plants under construction in the world today. With Arabian light crude oil as fuel, this plant uses steam for power generation and desalinated water production using multi stage flash distillation technology.



    Concession BOO (20 years)
    Location 110 km south of Jeddah
    Shareholders*
    Off taker Water & Electricity Company
    Cities Supplied
    • Makkah
    • Jeddah
    • Taif
    • Baha
    Project Cost
    ($ billions)
    2.45
    EPC Contractor Siemens/ Doosan Heavy Industries
    Consortium
    Owner's Engineer Fichtner
    O&M Contractor Saudi Malaysia Operation and Maintenance Services Co. (Nominated Subcontractor: NOMAC)
    Capacity
    • Water: 880,000 m³/day
    • Power: 900 MW (net) (net)
    Technology
    • MSF for water
    • Steam Turbine for power
    Fuel Arabian Heavy Crude Oil
    PCOD 25/07/2009

     

    * Shareholders are listed in order of percentage ownership; if equal shareholding, consortium leader comes first