Samsung C&T bags US$2.8bn Qatar power and desalination plant project – South Korea
The contractor said it had received a letter of award for the Qatar Facility E Independent Water and Power Production Project last month.
The project involves the construction of the a 2,415MW power plant, combined with a 110 MGID (millions of gallons of water per day) desalination plant and is worth US$2.84 billion.
Samsung C&T was awarded the project after a consortium of Japanese and Korean power companies jointly won the rights to develop the facility for Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa).