Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has received a Letter of Award (LOA) from the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) for a seawater desalination project to be executed in Ras Az Zawr. The project, touted as the largest desalination project in the world, is worth USD 1.46 billion. With a capacity of 1.025 million CUM per day, the plant’s daily potable water output will be the largest in the world, sufficient to meet the needs of 3.5 million people per day. The Ras Az Zawr seawater desalination project is to be constructed in the Ras Az Zawr region, 75 km northwest of Jubail, an industrial city in eastern Saudi Arabia. The plant will be constructed by adopting a hybrid method that will combine MSF (Multi-Stage Flashing) (160 MIGD) and Reverse Osmosis (RO) technologies (67.5 MIGD). Doosan is carrying out the contract on an EPC-basis, which will include engineering, production and installation of equipment and facilities, as well as testing and commissioning.
