Ras Abu Fontas A3
Seawater RO, 36 MIGD (164,000 m3/day), 13 duty plus 1 standby RO trains in Qatar.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Qatar
- Location
- Ras Abu Fontas
- Coordinates
- 25.203, 51.615
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 36 MIGD (164,000 m3/day), 13 duty plus 1 standby RO trains
- Capital cost
- US$481 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Qatar Electricity and Water Company; 25-year water purchase agreement with Kahramaa
- Contractor
- Mitsubishi Corporation and Toyo Thai Corporation (TTCL); Acciona Agua designed and built the RO plant
- Operator
- Qatar Electricity and Water Company
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2015
- Commissioned
- 2017-04
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2015-10
Water purchase agreement signed with Kahramaa on 13 October
- 2015-11
Foundation stone laid on 10 November alongside the RAF A2 opening
- 2017-04
Station launched by the Prime Minister on 18 April
Sources
8 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Nebras Energy (formerly QEWC), PM launches Ras Abu Fontas A3 Desalination Station, 19 April 2017. nebrasenergy.qa.
- Launched by the Prime Minister on 18 April 2017 at Al Wakrah, total cost about QR 1.75 billion, 36 million gallons a day, described as the first project in Qatar to use reverse osmosis on this scale.
- WaterWorld, Reverse osmosis desalination kick-started in Qatar with Ras Abu Fontas A3 project, 10 March 2015. waterworld.com.
- US$500 million independent water project, 25-year term, Qatar's first large-scale RO contract.
- Acciona, Ras Abu Fontas 3 SWRO. acciona.com.
- EPC plus O and M for KAHRAMAA at Al Wakrah, serving 1.1 million people, first large-scale use of RO in the country.
- Qatar Electricity and Water Company, Annual Report 2024 (archived copy of the qewc.com download; the company rebranded to Nebras Energy in 2025 and the live site no longer carries plant pages). web.archive.org.
- 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.
RAF A3 listed at 36 million gallons a day; water purchase agreement dated 13 October 2015. Budget converted from QR 1.75 billion at 3.64 riyals to the dollar.