Doha West Power and Desalination
Thermal MSF + power, 110.4 MIGD (500,000 m3/day) in Kuwait.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Doha
- Coordinates
- 29.367, 47.787
- Technology
- Thermal MSF + power
- Capacity
- 110.4 MIGD (500,000 m3/day)
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1983
- Commissioned
- 1983
Record last checked 2026-09-22.
History
- 1983
Doha West station enters service
- 2006
ministry records give 110.4 MIGD, about 500,000 m3/day, the largest block of distillation capacity in Kuwait
- 2026-03
A fragment of a drone intercepted over Kuwait fell on a fuel tank at the station and started a small fire
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.
- 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.
- Frontiers dates the Doha West site to 1983 and gives 780,000 m3/day for multi-stage flash and reverse osmosis combined, a figure that takes in the Doha seawater RO plant on the same complex.
- Arab Times, Drone fragment sparks small fire at Doha West Power and Water Distillation Station. arabtimesonline.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 Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy spokesperson Fatima Abbas Jawhar Hayat reported a small fire on a fuel tank from a drone fragment on 2 March 2026, quickly contained, with minor material damage, no injuries and networks operating normally.