• Satellite images obtained by Business Insider show work on Saudi Arabia's Neom project.
• Images appear to show a major palace for Saudi Arabia's ruler, Mohammed bin Salman.
• The palace has private beaches, extensive gardens, a golf course, and 10 helipads.

Satellite images obtained by Business Insider show a lavish palace that's been constructed as part of Saudi Arabia's $2 trillion Neom megacity project.

The images, which feature in a new Business Insider documentary and were captured by satellite firm Maxar Technologies in January, show a large palace on the Red Sea coast in the northeast of Saudi Arabia.

The images show a palace with private beaches, extensive gardens, a golf course, and 10 helipads.

The documentary based its identification of the palace as likely belonging to Saudi Arabian ruler Mohammed bin Salman on public data, including details in a 2018 Reuters report.

Information on the palace complex is sparse, but Reuters said that plans to build a complex of five royal palaces around 105 miles west of Tabuk were among the first Neom contracts to be awarded.

According to Reuters, the plans featured opulent buildings with Moroccan-style architecture, helipads, a marina, and a golf course — matching the development seen in the satellite imagery.

Neom is the centerpiece of Crown Prince Mohammed's plans to transition the Saudi economy away from fossil fuels and toward technology, innovation, and tourism.

The BI documentary highlights the project's most ambitious development, the construction of a 110-mile-long 'vertical city' called the Line, as well as controversies over Neom's design and environmental plans, as well as human rights concerns.

The entirety of the Line was initially scheduled to open by 2030, but now only a 1.5-mile "Hidden Marina" is likely to be ready by that date.

Crown Prince Mohammed has a lavish array of properties and assets, including a $300 million chateau in the South of France and a $400 million superyacht.

Saudi Arabia has channeled huge amounts of its oil wealth into funding the Neom project, but reports say it has struggled to attract foreign investments fast enough to realize its ambitious construction schedule.

Neom didn't respond to Business Insider requests for comment.