Acciona Agua, a leader in providing sustainable solutions for infrastructure and renewable energy projects, said it has been awarded a €200-million ($234 million) contract by Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), a Saudi government corporation, to build a desalination plant in Al Khobar.

The facility is expected to be completed in two years and will have a capacity of 210,000 cu m per day, making it one of the largest in Saudi Arabia, said the Spanish group. The plant will also supply water to Saudi Aramco, it stated.

Acciona Agua has good experience in the water treatment business in Saudi Arabia. In 2012, the company was awarded the contract  for the Al Jubail RO4 seawater desalination plant for Marafiq along with SBG-PCMC, which serves both the city and its industrial complex.

The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, plus a one-year warranty, is SWCC’s first design-and-build project with a Spanish company.