Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction announced on the 25th that it has signed a contract with a consortium consisting of French energy specialists Ang, Saudi firms Mowa, and Nesma to build a seawater desalination plant in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.
The Yanbu 4 seawater desalination plant will be built in Alais, located 260km north of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia using a reverse osmosis (RO) method. RO seawater desalination removes salt by passing through a semipermeable membrane by applying artificial pressure to seawater.
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction is planning to construct the Yanbu 4 seawater desalination plant by 2023 using an EPC method that performs design, equipment manufacturing, and construction in a batch. It will be able to produce 450,000 tons of water that can be used by about 1.5 million people a day.
In-won Park, head of Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction’s plant EPC BG, said, “Through this order, we have once again been recognized for our technology in the Middle East, where the construction of RO-based seawater desalination plants is expanding.” I will actively target the market.”
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction is reinforcing the seawater desalination plant business in the Middle East market by signing a contract for the construction of the 4th stage project in Yanbu following the order of the 1st phase of Doha, Kuwait in 2016, the Saudi Shoaiba project in 2017, and the Sharkia desalination plant in Oman in 2018.
Meanwhile, the Export-Import Bank of Korea provided project financing (PF) worth a total of 260 billion won at the request of French NG, a developer. This is the first time that the Export-Import Bank provided financial support for the RO method seawater desalination plant business.
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