Doha Seawater RO Stage 1
Seawater RO, 60 MIGD (about 270,000 m3/day) in Kuwait.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Doha
- Coordinates
- 29.370, 47.790
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 60 MIGD (about 270,000 m3/day)
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy
- Contractor
- Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction (EPC)
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2016
- Commissioned
- 2018-11
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2016-05
Doosan announces the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the Doha phase 1 reverse osmosis plant at about 450 billion won
- 2018-11
completion and start of fresh water production per the contractor, with operations and maintenance running to November 2023
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Doosan Enerbility news release, 31 May 2016. doosanenerbility.com.
- reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant phase 1 for the Kuwaiti Ministry of Electricity and Water at Doha, about 270,000 tons of fresh water a day, contract about 450 billion Korean won, construction completion and start of production November 2018, operations and maintenance to November 2023. Oxford Business Group, Kuwait 2018 report, The government is working to improve water infrastructure and production capacity. oxfordbusinessgroup.com.
- Az Zour South and Shuwaikh RO plants at 30 MIGD each; two 60 MIGD RO plants at Doha.
- Smart Water Magazine, Kuwait moves ahead with plans to increase its desalination capacity (8 September 2021). smartwatermagazine.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.
gives Doha phase 1 at 50 MIGD awarded to Doosan in 2015. Coordinates are the Doha power and water distillation complex at Doha Port in Kuwait, from OpenStreetMap, the site at which the ministry places the reverse osmosis plants; given to two decimals because the reverse osmosis units are not mapped separately. This is Kuwait's Doha, not Qatar's.