Yokogawa Saudi Arabia has received an order to supply control systems and other solutions for the One Million Project, which will introduce seawater reverse osmosis (RO) technology at the Al Jubail desalination (desal) plant.
For this project, Yokogawa will provide control systems, safety instrumented systems, production management systems, operator training simulators, and cybersecurity solutions.
Installation is set to be completed by January 2024, and the new facilities are expected to be fully operational by December 2024. Yokogawa has been involved in over 100 desalination plant projects worldwide, including the supply of control systems for desalination plants in Saudi Arabia, and also monitoring systems for pipelines that transport desalinated water to urban areas.
The construction contractor for the project, a world-scale facility with a water production capacity of 1 million cu m per day, is a consortium between Saudi Services for Electro Mechanic Works Company and Metito Saudi Arabia. The order came from the Saline Water Conversion Corporation.
The project will replace the existing multi-stage flash distillation (MSF) facilities with RO facilities. Extending the life of the existing plant is seen to be a more environment-friendly approach than constructing an all-new plant.
