Umm Al Houl IWPP (Facility D)
MSF/RO + power, 136.5 MIGD (620,000 m3/day) from five MSF units and an RO plant, and 2,520 MW in Qatar.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Qatar
- Location
- Umm Al Houl
- Coordinates
- 25.100, 51.600
- Technology
- MSF/RO + power
- Capacity
- 136.5 MIGD (620,000 m3/day) from five MSF units and an RO plant, and 2,520 MW
- Capital cost
- Approximately US$2,538 m total co-financing (JBIC, 15 January 2016): debt, not a published total project cost. Samsung C&T's power-plant EPC contract alone was US$1.8 bn (2015)
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Umm Al Houl Power Q.P.S.C. (QEWC 60 per cent, K1 Energy 30 per cent, QatarEnergy 5 per cent, Qatar Foundation 5 per cent); off-taker Kahramaa on a 25-year agreement
- Contractor
- Samsung C and T for the power plant, Hitachi Zosen for the MSF desalination plant, Acciona Agua for the RO plant, Yokogawa for the control systems
- Operator
- Umm Al Houl Power Q.P.S.C.
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2015
- Commissioned
- 2018
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2015-05
Umm Al Houl Power incorporated on 13 May as the Facility D project company
- 2015
Samsung C and T awarded a US$1.8 billion contract for the 2,500 MW power block
- 2016-01
Yokogawa wins control system orders from Samsung C and T, Acciona Agua and Hitachi Zosen
- 2017-05
First commercial operation
- 2018
Full operation at 2,520 MW and 620,000 m3/day
Sources
13 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- JERA, Umm Al Houl Gas Thermal IWPP Project. jera.co.jp.
- 2,520 MW, desalination of 900,000 tonnes a day as of September 2025 after an expansion of 280,000 tonnes a day completed in April 2021, so 620,000 tonnes a day for the original Facility D plant, full operation from 2018, 25-year sale to Kahramaa.
- Yokogawa, Yokogawa wins control system orders for large thermal power and desalination plants in Qatar, 15 January 2016. yokogawa.com.
- Orders placed by Samsung C and T for the power plant, by Acciona Agua for the RO plant and by Hitachi Zosen for the MSF plant, 2.4 GW and a combined design capacity of 590,000 m3/day for the two desalination plants, 20 km south of Doha.
- Samsung C and T Newsroom, Building the Engine of Growth: Qatar's Umm Al Houl Power Plant, 29 August 2018. news.samsungcnt.com.
- US$1.8 billion contract awarded in 2015 for the 2,500 MW power plant, 15 km south of Doha.
- Qatar Electricity and Water Company, Annual Report 2024 (archived copy of the qewc.com download; the company rebranded to Nebras Energy in January 2026 and the live site no longer carries plant pages). web.archive.org.
- QEWC holds 60 per cent of Umm Al Houl Power, listed at 2,520 MW and 198 million gallons a day including the 2021 expansion; the company was incorporated on 13 May 2015. Budget is JBIC's total co-financing figure (see the budget note); Samsung C and T's power block EPC contract was US$1.8 billion.
- JBIC, 15 January 2016. jbic.go.jp.
- Total co-financing of approximately USD2,538 million.
- Umm Al Houl Power was established by Mitsubishi Corporation and Tokyo Electric Power Company with Qatar Petroleum, QEWC and Qatar Foundation.
- Power Technology, Umm Al Houl combined cycle power plant, 2 August 2016. power-technology.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.
K1 Energy is a consortium of TEPCO and Mitsubishi Corporation.