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Saudi Arabia five-IWP developer qualification programme

Aerial view of the existing Ras Al Khair power and desalination complex on the Gulf coast; location context for two planned programme plants, not construction evidence

United Steel Industries

Sharakat, the Saudi Water Partnership Company, has grouped Ras Al Khair 2, Ras Al Khair 3, Tabuk 1, Shuqaiq 4 and Jazan 1 into one developer qualification programme. Their listed capacities add to 2.1 million cubic metres per day. The shared request for qualification makes each future project company responsible for a greenfield seawater reverse-osmosis plant, seawater intake and outfall facilities and related infrastructure. It does not publish the five individual RFPs, marine alignments, environmental approvals, awards or construction programmes.

Project signal

Prequalification in Saudi Arabia

Current status Sharakat is qualifying developers across five planned seawater reverse-osmosis projects; no individual RFP, award or project-specific marine package is public Source confidence Confirmed

Location

Saudi Arabia / Middle East

Segment

Marine utilities

Status

Sharakat is qualifying developers across five planned seawater reverse-osmosis projects; no individual RFP, award or project-specific marine package is public / Confirmed

Last checked

18 July 2026

Coverage

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Marine utilities is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.

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Project anatomy

Contract scope and delivery roles

Client / authority
Sharakat (Saudi Water Partnership Company)
Delivery parties
No project company, EPC contractor or marine works contractor selected
Contract route
Sharakat is using one request for qualification to screen developers for five future independent water projects. The reviewed programme material does not establish that an individual RFP has been issued for any of the five projects, nor does it identify a preferred bidder, award or executed water-purchase agreement.
Execution window
The current qualification table gives 2026 as the expected launch year for all five projects. It does not provide separate RFP dates, award dates, financial-close deadlines, construction starts or operating dates, so those milestones remain open for each project.
Works package
The programme lists Ras Al Khair 2 at 600,000 cubic metres per day; Ras Al Khair 3, Tabuk 1 and Shuqaiq 4 at 400,000 cubic metres per day each; and Jazan 1 at 300,000 cubic metres per day. The shared RFQ describes greenfield SWRO plants with screening and pumping, pretreatment, reverse osmosis and energy recovery, post-treatment and export, wastewater systems, storage and the seawater intake and outfall facilities required by each eventual RFP.
Marine interfaces
The RFQ assigns intake and outfall facilities and brine and treated-wastewater discharge to future project companies. It publishes no site-specific route, dimensions, materials, diffuser, shore crossing, dredging quantity, marine survey or permit condition.
Commercial evidence boundary
The five published design capacities sum to 2.1 million cubic metres per day. That is a planning total across a qualification pipeline, not contracted capacity, a portfolio under construction or water available to the offtaker. One qualification exercise may create a common bidder pool, but it does not merge the five projects into one physical package or one award.

Project timeline

Material developments

Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.

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Current portfolio confirms the five-project capacity list

Sharakat's current portfolio lists Ras Al Khair 2, Ras Al Khair 3, Tabuk 1, Shuqaiq 4 and Jazan 1 at a combined planned capacity of 2.1 million cubic metres per day. The list does not establish individual RFPs, bidders, awards or construction starts.

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Shared RFQ assigns intake and outfall responsibility

The common qualification document places seawater intake and outfall facilities within each future project company's responsibility. It does not publish the five site-specific alignments, dimensions, permits, marine packages or delivery programmes.

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Evidence gap

What remains unverified

Outstanding evidence

  • Separate RFP release for Ras Al Khair 2, Ras Al Khair 3, Tabuk 1, Shuqaiq 4 and Jazan 1
  • Qualified developers, bidder lists and project-company structures
  • Site-specific capacity, schedule, water-purchase agreement and risk allocation
  • Bathymetry, oceanography, geotechnical and seawater-quality investigations
  • Intake route, screens, pumping, shore crossing and hydraulic design
  • Outfall route, diffuser, brine dispersion and wastewater handling
  • Environmental and social impact assessment, marine permits and fisheries conditions
  • Project award, financial close, EPC packaging and marine contractor selection
  • Offshore mobilisation, installed works, testing, first water and accepted output

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Reporting status

Prequalification, confirmed confidence

Last checked 18 July 2026 across 8 cited sources. The dated timeline above carries the project events.

Last checked 18 July 2026 Cited sources 8

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