Ras Mohaisen's three published schedules still need reconciliation

What changed

Sharakat's February 2025 release establishes project-agreement signing and its December release establishes financial close, initial production of 100,000 cubic metres per day in 2028 and full 300,000-cubic-metre-per-day production in 2030. L&T establishes the March 2025 EPC award. ACWA's year-end report classifies all 300,000 cubic metres per day as under construction and gives Q4 2029 as expected PCOD. Lantania gives a 2025-2029 execution period and 3 kilometres of offshore work; the ESIA establishes the intake-outfall and seabed-work interfaces. None of those sources publishes accepted marine as-builts, completed hydraulic testing, first-water certification or sustained operating results.

Why it matters

This is the kind of water project that disappears from a marine-works monitor when coverage stops at the desalination headline. L&T's scope includes intake and outfall facilities; Lantania identifies 3 kilometres of offshore work; the ESIA identifies seabed trenching, dredging, pipe laying, turbidity controls, brine modelling and marine monitoring. Yet financial close, modelled impacts and an under-construction portfolio label do not establish installed pipelines, accepted hydraulics or water available to the offtaker. The three published schedules also refer to different delivery states and need an explicit contractual reconciliation.