Sembcorp Salalah Power & Water Company (Sembcorp Salalah) is a company that develops, owns, and operates an electricity generation and seawater desalination plant. The plant, known as the Salalah Independent Water and Power Plant, is located between the towns of Taqah and Mirbat in Oman. The Salalah Independent Water and Power Plant consists of a gas-fired combined-cycle power plant and a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant. It is situated approximately 50 kilometers from Salalah, the administrative town in the Dhofar Governorate. The net capacity of the plant is 489 megawatts, with a contracted capacity of 445 megawatts. The contracted water capacity is 15 million imperial gallons (equivalent to 69,000 cubic meters) per day. Sembcorp Salalah has invested approximately US$1 billion to develop, finance, build, own, and operate the plant. The company generates its revenues through a 15-year power and water purchase agreement with the Oman Power and Water Procurement Company, which is indirectly wholly-owned by the Omani government. Sembcorp Salalah is currently listed on the Muscat Securities Market.
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