History
The construction of the first stage of the Shoaiba power station began in 1998 (although there was a power generation and saline desalination plant in operation at the site as far back as 1985 with commissioning support from Stuttgart based Fichtner Consulting Engineers). The ABB-led consortium built a power station equipped with three turbines, heat recovery steam generators and ancillary power generation equipment. The first stage cost about US$850 million. The first unit came into operation in July 2001. The other two units were completed in August 2003. The contract for construction of the second stage was awarded to a consortium led by Alstom Power. A multi-stage flash distillation water desalination plant was built by Hanjung (now Doosan Heavy Industries) in partnership with Bechtel. The desalination plant of capacity of 50 million cubic meters of water per year was commissioned in 2000. A second desalination plant with capacity of 50 million cubic meters of water per year was constructed in March 2003.
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