Az-Zour South Power and Desalination
MSF/RO + power, 115.2 MIGD (520,000 m3/day) of distillation, plus a 30 MIGD (136,600 m3/day) reverse osmosis plant added in 2015 in Kuwait.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Az-Zour
- Coordinates
- 28.706, 48.372
- Technology
- MSF/RO + power
- Capacity
- 115.2 MIGD (520,000 m3/day) of distillation, plus a 30 MIGD (136,600 m3/day) reverse osmosis plant added in 2015
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy
- Contractor
- Veolia (reverse osmosis plant and recarbonation unit)
- Operator
- Veolia held a five-year operations and maintenance contract on the reverse osmosis plant
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1988
- Commissioned
- 1988
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1988
Az-Zour South distillation station enters service
- 2006
ministry records give 115.2 MIGD, about 520,000 m3/day, of multi-stage flash capacity
- 2015
Veolia commissions a 136,600 m3/day reverse osmosis plant on the site, drawing water already used to cool the power station
Sources
10 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Alfadhli and Alhashemi, Environmental Impact of Desalination Plant Saline Water on Kuwait Bay, Journal of Engineering Research and Application 9 (2), 2019. ijera.com.
- Table 1, citing MEW 2006, lists the installed distillation plants in MIGD and million m3/day.
- Frontiers in Environmental Science, A detailed perspective of water resource management in a dry and water scarce country: the case in Kuwait (2022). frontiersin.org.
- Table 2 gives eight coastal desalination plants with year, technology and capacity in m3/day.
- Veolia, Az Zour North and South, Kuwait. veolia.com.
- Az Zour South reverse osmosis plant of 136,600 m3/day, commissioned 2015, fed with preheated power station cooling water.
- Veolia Near and Middle East, Az Zour South. near-middle-east.veolia.com.
- recarbonation unit by OTV SA and a five-year O and M agreement.
- Oxford Business Group, Kuwait 2018 report, The government is working to improve water infrastructure and production capacity. oxfordbusinessgroup.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.
Az Zour South and Shuwaikh RO plants at 30 MIGD each; two 60 MIGD RO plants at Doha.