Muharraq Wastewater Treatment Plant BOOT
Wastewater treatment + reuse, 100,000 m3/day, designed for a further 60,000 m3/day, with a 16.5 km deep gravity sewer trunk main in Bahrain.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Bahrain
- Location
- Muharraq
- Coordinates
- 26.227, 50.704
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + reuse
- Capacity
- 100,000 m3/day, designed for a further 60,000 m3/day, with a 16.5 km deep gravity sewer trunk main
- Capital cost
- US$310 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Works, Kingdom of Bahrain; project company Muharraq Wastewater Services Company
- Contractor
- Samsung Engineering (now Samsung E and A) as lead developer and EPC contractor
- Operator
- Samsung E and A with Almar Water Solutions, which holds 35 per cent
- Finance
- 29-year build, own, operate and transfer concession running to 2 April 2040
- Award or start year
- 2011
- Commissioned
- 2014-04
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2011-02
Ministry of Works and Ministry of Finance award the contract to the Samsung Engineering led consortium on 3 February
- 2011
Concession signed, 29 years running to 2 April 2040
- 2014-04
Plant completed and the 26-year operation and maintenance period begins
- 2019
Almar Water Solutions acquires a 35 per cent stake
Sources
7 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Samsung E and A, MOW Muharraq Sewage Treatment BOT Project. samsungena.com.
- Sewage treatment 100,000 m3/day with two sludge incinerators and sewer pipelines, client the Ministry of Works, completed in April 2014 with a 26-year operation and maintenance period, the company's first overseas BOT project.
- Almar Water Solutions, Muharraq wastewater treatment plant. almarwater.com.
- 100,000 m3/day, tertiary treatment for reclaimed water, sludge incineration, 29-year BOOT signed in 2011 and running to 2040, investment US$310 million, about 260,000 people served, a 16.5 km deep gravity sewer trunk pipeline described as the first of its kind in the GCC, designed for a further 60,000 m3/day.
- Smart Water Magazine, Muharraq WWTP: a unique facility in Bahrain. smartwatermagazine.com.
- Operations from 2014 at about 72,000 m3/day rising to the 100,000 m3/day design capacity, preliminary, secondary and tertiary treatment with disc filters and UV. WaterWorld, Wastewater treatment contract in Bahrain finally awarded to global consortium, 3 February 2011. waterworld.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
Ministry of Works and Ministry of Finance award the contract to a consortium of Samsung Engineering, Invest AD and United Utilities International on a BOT basis, 100,000 m3/day, mechanical completion after 30 months, expandable to 160,000 m3/day.