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Marafiq – the company responsible for utility projects in the key Saudi industrial heartlands of Jubail and Yanbu – has announced that its Jubail IWPP megaproject is now operational.
The facility has a capacity of 2,700MW and produces 800,000 cubic metres of water a day.
“Jubail’s project is operational…before schedule but not in full production. We have just started operations in August this year,” said Sultan Al-Ruhaili, Marafiq’s general manager for technical affairs, according to Reuters.
“We started earlier because of demand in Riyadh. The demand in Riyadh is very high,” he added.
Ruhaili added that a tender for the Yanbu 2 750MW plant would be launched in the first quarter of 2010.
