Az-Zour South Reverse Osmosis Plant
Seawater RO, 30 MIGD (136,600 m3/day) of seawater reverse osmosis, fed with water already used to cool the power station; on the site of the 1988 Az-Zour South distillation station (115.2 MIGD in 2006) in Kuwait.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Az-Zour
- Coordinates
- 28.706, 48.372
- Technology
- Seawater RO
- Capacity
- 30 MIGD (136,600 m3/day) of seawater reverse osmosis, fed with water already used to cool the power station; on the site of the 1988 Az-Zour South distillation station (115.2 MIGD in 2006)
- Capital cost
- KD 53.1 m (US$190 m) contract for the reverse osmosis plant, as MEED gives it; includes five years of operation, not priced separately (design, build and operate, five years, in Sidem's reference list; Veolia's five-year operation and maintenance agreement); the 1988 distillation station's cost is not disclosed
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy
- Contractor
- Veolia (through OTV) with Alghanim International, design, build and operate
- Operator
- Veolia held a five-year operations and maintenance contract on the reverse osmosis plant
- Finance
- Government of Kuwait (Ministry of Electricity and Water)
- Award or start year
- 2011
- Commissioned
- 2014-07
Record last checked 2026-10-16.
History
- 1988
Az-Zour South distillation station enters service
- 2006
ministry records give 115.2 MIGD of multi-stage flash capacity on the site
- 2011-03
Ministry of Electricity and Water signs the KD 53.1 million reverse osmosis contract with Alghanim International and OTV on 31 March
- 2013-06
Start-up date in Sidem's reference list
- 2014-07
Plant operating
- 2015-01
Plant inaugurated
Sources
15 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Alfadhli and Alhashemi, Environmental Impact of Desalination Plant Saline Water on Kuwait Bay, Journal of Engineering Research and Application 9 (2), 2019. ijera.com.
- Table 1, citing MEW 2006, lists the installed distillation plants in MIGD and million m3/day.
- Frontiers in Environmental Science, A detailed perspective of water resource management in a dry and water scarce country: the case in Kuwait (2022). frontiersin.org.
- Table 2 gives eight coastal desalination plants with year, technology and capacity in m3/day.
- Veolia, Az Zour North and South, Kuwait. veolia.com.
- Az Zour South reverse osmosis plant of 136,600 m3/day, commissioned 2015, fed with preheated power station cooling water.
- Veolia Near and Middle East, Az Zour South. near-middle-east.veolia.com.
- recarbonation unit by OTV SA and a five-year O and M agreement.
- Oxford Business Group, Kuwait 2018 report, The government is working to improve water infrastructure and production capacity. oxfordbusinessgroup.com.
- Az Zour South and Shuwaikh RO plants at 30 MIGD each; two 60 MIGD RO plants at Doha.
- MEED, Kuwait awards Al-Zour South desalination contract, 19 April 2011. meed.com.
- The Electricity and Water Ministry awarded the KD53.1m ($190m) contract for a 30 million gallons a day reverse osmosis plant to Alghanim International and France's OTV; contract signed on 31 March.
- Water Technology, Az-Zour Kuwait desalination plant recycles power station cooling water, 28 January 2015. watertechonline.com.
- Inaugurated that week; Veolia awarded the tender in 2011 with Al Ghanim International; operating since July 2014. Sidem, reverse osmosis references. sidem-desalination.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
136,450 m3/day, design, build and operate (five years), start-up June 2013. Veolia's own page dates the opening to 2015. The row now describes the reverse osmosis plant (editor's decision, Kuwait round); the distillation station is kept in the capacity and history.