Shuaiba South Power and Desalination
Thermal MSF + power, 30 MIGD (135,000 m3/day) in Kuwait.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Shuaiba
- Coordinates
- 29.032, 48.155
- Technology
- Thermal MSF + power
- Capacity
- 30 MIGD (135,000 m3/day)
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1971
- Commissioned
- 1971
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1971
Shuaiba South distillation station enters service
- 2006
ministry records give 30 MIGD, about 135,000 m3/day
Sources
5 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.
- The 2019 table, drawn from MEW 2006 data, predates Shuaiba North and so covers the southern station alone.
- 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.
- 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.
Table 2 gives eight coastal desalination plants with year, technology and capacity in m3/day. Frontiers gives Shuaiba South 1971 and 140,000 m3/day.