Common Seawater Supply Project
Seawater treatment for oilfield injection, 5 million barrels/day of treated seawater in Iraq.
Under construction
The record
- Country
- Iraq
- Location
- Basra
- Coordinates
- 30.300, 47.900
- Technology
- Seawater treatment for oilfield injection
- Capacity
- 5 million barrels/day of treated seawater
- Capital cost
- US$3 billion
- Stage
- Under construction
- Owner or client
- GGIP partners: TotalEnergies (45%, operator), Basra Oil Company (30%), QatarEnergy (25%)
- Contractor
- Hyundai Engineering & Construction (EPC)
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Government
- Award or start year
- 2025
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-04.
History
- 2025-09
Start of construction announced in Baghdad by TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy with the Iraqi prime minister
- 2025-09
Hyundai E&C EPC contract reported at US$3.16 billion
Sources
4 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- TotalEnergies, Iraq: TotalEnergies launches the construction of the final two major projects of the GGIP, 15 September 2025. totalenergies.com.
- JPT (SPE), TotalEnergies greenlights final phase of Basra water project, Ratawi redevelopment, 25 September 2025. jpt.spe.org.
- Iraq Business News, Partners sign key contracts for Iraq's Gas Growth Integrated Project, 16 September 2025. iraq-businessnews.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.
This is an upstream oil project: the treated seawater is injected to maintain reservoir pressure at Rumaila, Zubair, West Qurna and Majnoon, not supplied to households.