Shuwaikh Water Distribution Complex
Strategic storage, 71 million imperial gallons of added storage (about 323,000 m3) and 23 MIGD of added low-salinity pumping capacity in Kuwait.
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Shuwaikh
- Coordinates
- 29.350, 47.940
- Technology
- Strategic storage
- Capacity
- 71 million imperial gallons of added storage (about 323,000 m3) and 23 MIGD of added low-salinity pumping capacity
- Capital cost
- US$243 million
- Stage
- Awarded
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy; tendered through the Central Agency for Public Tenders
- Contractor
- Khalid Ali Al-Kharafi and Brothers
- Operator
- Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2025
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2025-03
Central Agency for Public Tenders approves four bids for the complex
- 2025-12
Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy awards the contract to Khalid Ali Al-Kharafi and Brothers at KWD 77.7 million
- 2026-03
Tender referred to the State Audit Bureau on 12 March for pre-audit
- 2026-05
State Audit Bureau grants conditional approval at KD 74.703 million
Sources
6 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- SaudiGulf Projects, Kuwait awards $253 million Shuwaikh Water Distribution Complex Project, 28 December 2025. saudigulfprojects.com.
- the Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy awarded a contract worth KWD 77.7 million to Khalid Ali Al-Kharafi and Brothers Co. for the construction, completion, maintenance and development of the existing Shuwaikh water distribution complex and all associated works.
- Gulf Construction, $243m Shuwaikh water distribution complex project approved, 1 May 2026. gulfconstructiononline.com.
- gives the value as KD 74.703 million, about US$243.1 million, reports that the tender was referred to the State Audit Bureau on 12 March for pre-audit and that the bureau has given conditional approval, with the contract expected to be finalised soon.
- Smart Water Magazine, Kuwait's CAPT approves bids for Shuwaikh Water Distribution Complex, 11 March 2025. 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.
reports the Central Agency for Public Tenders approving four bids and gives the scheme's purpose as adding 71 million imperial gallons of storage and 23 million gallons a day of low-salinity pumping capacity. Smart Water Magazine returns 403 to repeated requests from the same address and behaves as a rate-limited bot wall; the page was read in full through a fetching service. The two published contract values conflict, KWD 77.7 million or about US$253 million at award and KD 74.703 million or about US$243.1 million at audit. The budget field uses the audited figure of 243 and both are recorded here. Dollar figures are the publishers' own; no dinar conversion rate is applied here. The stage is Awarded rather than Under construction because the State Audit Bureau approval was still conditional and the contract was not reported as finalised. Coordinates are left blank: neither source pins the complex. Coordinates added on 20 September 2026, approximate. OpenStreetMap way 827417286, named محطة الشويخ لتوليد الطاقة الكهربائية وتقطير المياه and dated to 1952, lies at 29.3515 47.9402 next to Shuwaikh port, and the ministry places its Shuwaikh water facilities there. Reverse geocoding returns the Capital governorate of Kuwait. The distribution complex itself carries no mapped boundary, so the pin is given to two decimals and stands for the adjoining ministry station.