Desalination Plant in Kuwait
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. announced on May 31 that it has won a 460 billion won (US$86 million) deal to build a Doha phase one desalination plant in Kuwait. The facility will process 270,000 tons of sea water into fresh water a day, which could be consumed by 900,000 people.
Under the deal with the Ministry of Electricity & Water of Kuwait, the company will complete the construction of the plant by November 2018 as the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor. Doosan Heavy Industries will then undertake the operation and maintenance of the plant until November 2023.
Since the water quality of Kuwait's marine waters is one of the worst in the world, the pre-treatment process in the desalination plant is very important. In this respect, it is meaningful in that Doosan Heavy Industries won the bid after competing against global leading plant builders from advanced nations like France and Spain with its differentiated technology in advanced pre-treatment process.
“As we have won a large seawater desalination deal in its main Middle Eastern market once again, we have strengthened our status in the reverse osmosis (RO) desalination market,” said Yoon Seok-won, head of Water BG Group at Doosan Heavy Industries. “We hope to move more aggressively to tap into the global RO seawater desalination market, which will worth US$4.5 billion (5.36 trillion won), by 2020.”