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Contracted desalination capacity by feedwater type and plant size, 2015–2018
Seawater
1.6 million m3/d
Total feedwater capacity (2015)
4.0 million m3/d
Brackish water
0.9 million m3/d
Other
1.5 million m3/d
Other 0.5 million m3/d
Seawater
2.6 million m3/d
Total feedwater capacity (2016)
4.1 million m3/d
Brackish water
0.9 million m3/d
Other 1.0 million m3/d
Total feedwater capacity (2017)
4.0 million m3/d
Seawater
2.3 million m3/d
Brackish water
0.8 million m3/d
Brackish water 0.1 million m3/d
Seawater
1.9 million m3/d
Total feedwater capacity (2018*)
2.5 million m3/d
Totals may not match exactly due to independent rounding of figures
Other 0.4 million m3/d
Percentage by total seawater capacity
S 1%
M
11%
M 5%
S 1%
S 1%
M 3%
S 0%
L 23%
L 19%
M
7%
L 26%
L
14%
Small
Percentage by number of seawater plants
XL 65%
2015 S 42%
XL 76%
2016
XL 66%
2017 S 40%
XL 83%
2018*
Medium
M 40%
S 45%
S
15%
Large
M 26%
M 33%
M 35%
Extra Large
L 25%
L
13%
XL
6%
L 21%
XL
8%
L 21%
XL
7%
XL 25%
Source: GWI DesalData / IDA
*Values through June 2018
Desalination’s core markets of the Middle East and GCC fell by 40% from 2016 to 2017, largely due to a decrease in extra-large
municipal seawater projects in the GCC. However, several large awards are likely to be made in late 2018, with bids already submitted
on two extra-large projects in Saudi Arabia and one in Bahrain. In the first half of 2018 the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA)
awarded a 181,840 m3/d seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) expansion at its Jebel Ali power and desalination complex, and the Federal
Electricity & Water Authority (FEWA) awarded a 272,360 m3/d SWRO expansion at its Hamriyah desalination plant in Sharjah. Three
additional IWPs totalling 74,000 m3/d were awarded to Utico in 2017–2018 in Dubai. Perhaps the most interesting project award in the
Gulf came in the form of three barge-mounted desalination units of 50,000 m3/d each, awarded to Metito in mid-2018. In the wider
Middle East, much of the drop in awarded capacity in 2017 is a result of delays to the third phase of desalination capacity at the SAKO
facility in Bandar Abbas, Iran. The 2017 award of this 200,000 m3/d project to Hyflux now appears unlikely to go ahead in the near
future, as the company filed for protection from its creditors in May 2018 following losses at its Tuas IWPP in Singapore.
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