Doha Seawater RO Stage 2
Seawater RO, 60 MIGD (273,000 m3/day) in Kuwait.
Awarded
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Doha
- Coordinates
- 29.370, 47.790
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 60 MIGD (273,000 m3/day)
- Capital cost
- US$371 million
- Stage
- Awarded
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy
- Contractor
- VA Tech Wabag and Heavy Engineering Industries and Shipbuilding Company (HEISCO) joint venture
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2026
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2021-09
ministry tenders a second Doha reverse osmosis stage on an engineering, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance basis
- 2026-04
Central Agency for Public Tenders approves the award to the Wabag and HEISCO joint venture at KD114.28 million for a 96-month contract
Sources
2 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Smart Water Magazine, Kuwait grants 371 million dollar Doha desalination plant phase 2 contract to HEISCO and Wabag. 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.
award dated 27 April 2026 by the Central Agency for Public Tenders, KD114.28 million (about US$371 million), 60 MIGD with a recarbonation system, tender reference MEW 16/2024/2025, 96-month contract covering supply, erection, operation and maintenance. 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.