Doosan Wins Saudi Desalination Contract

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has secured a $1.46bn contract from Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion to build a desalination plant at Ras Az Zawr, Saudi Arabia.

The plant will produce 228 million gallons of desalinated water a day to meet the needs of 3.5 million people in the capital city of Riyadh.

The project awarded to the South Korean company will include engineering, production and installation of equipment and facilities, as well as testing and commissioning.

Doosan said the plant will use a hybrid method combining multi-stage flashing to process 160 million gallons of water a day, and reverse osmosis technologies to process 67.5 million gallons of water a day.

The project is expected to be complete by January 2014.