Doosan wins desalination plant contract in Saudi Arabia

Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction, a leading provider of seawater desalination solutions has been awarded a contract amounted US $ 422 million, to build a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in Saudi Arabia.

The company had concluded an agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) on March 29^th, the project will be the country’s largest-capacity seawater RO desalination plant in Shuaibah located along the country’s Red Sea coast, about 110 km south of Jeddah.

Under the term of the agreement, Doosan will undertake engineering, procurement and construction and once completed, the plant is expected to produce 400,000 tons of water a day to supply 130,000 people in the western part of Saudi Arabia.

According to Seokwon Yoon, Water BG and Executive Vice President of Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, Doosan aims to extend their commitment of delivering the advanced solutions to help meet the growing demand of water and electricity in the kingdom and Doosan by moving forward, will continue to concentrate their efforts on expanding its presence in the global RO desalination market which is expected to reach $4.5 billion in market size by 2020.