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Kuwait retenders Doha desalination package

30 April 2025

Kuwait’s Electricity, Water & Renewable Energy Ministry (MEWRE) has retendered a contract to design and build the planned second phase of a seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant in Doha.

When it was first tendered, the Doha SWRO phase two project was expected to have a capacity of 60 million imperial gallons a day (MIGD).

The tender closing date for the retendered contract is 27 May.

The scope of work entails the supply, installation, operation and maintenance of phase two of the Doha SWRO plant, including alkalinisation equipment for produced water.

The ministry cancelled the tender for the contract in June last year. 

Contractors submitted bids for the contract in September 2022. At the time, the MEW did not disclose the engineering, procurement and contracting firms invited to bid for the contract.

The MEW awarded South Korea’s Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, now known as Doosan Enerbility, the $422m contract to build the 60MIGD Doha 1 SWRO in May 2016.

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