• Client & End User

    Client: Nesma & Partners
    End User: King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST)

  • Scope of Work

    Detailed design for a redundant seawater intake pipeline
    5,787 cu.m/hr and 1.95km long

  • Project Period

    Start: 21 October 2018
    End: 03 June 2019
    Status: Completed

  • Estimated Project Value

    SAR 10,000,000

KAUST desired to secure their seawater intake supply for the desalination plant by erecting a redundant seawater intake pipeline. The maximum pumping flow rate is 5,787 cu.m/hr through a 1.95km 1000mm diameter GRP pipeline. The pipeline was designed above-ground for the majority of the distance to avoid the poor soil conditions below that may cause the pipe to break due to high/low tides. The new pipeline interfaces with the existing system from inside the seawater intake pumping station and with the connection at the desalination plant pre-treatment. The tie-ins have been designed to consider easy and quick isolation/selection of the either pipeline. The redundant pipeline has been operating since October 2020.