Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, the world’s No. 1 player in seawater desalination, won a 220 billion seawater desalination project from Sazeh Sazan, an Iranian company, making it the first such project since the lifting of the international community’s sanctions against Iran.
Doosan become the first global company to be awarded with a seawater desalinating plant project since the 2016 lifting of the sanctions imposed in 2010.
Doosan plans to make the deal a springboard to a full-fledged raid on the Iranian seawater desalination market.
The company plans to nurture the desalination business as a value-added arena by making the most of its presence in Middle Eastern countries, including Iran.
Yun Seok-won, CEO of the water business group at Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, signed the deal with Chairman Reza Haddadian of Sazeh Sazan in Teheran on June 26.
According to the deal, Doosan will launch the desalination plant project for mines in Bandar Abbas in Hormozgan Province this year and dedicate it by 2018. The plant will be capable of producing 200,000 tons of water, an equivalent amount of covering 670,000 people simultaneously.
The project got a boost when Korean President Park Geun-hye had summit talks with her Iranian counterpart in May, 54 years after the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
“We’ve made strenuous efforts to make an inroad into the Iranian market by signing an MOU with the National Water & Wastewater Engineering Company (NWWEC),” Yoon said.
The Korean-Iranian summit talks helped push the deal across the finishing line, he added. Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction handles all things, ranging from design to equipment procurement. The company will be in charge of maintenance and repair for the plant for the first 12 years.
Doosan has seen the seawater desalination business suffer setbacks of late. Influenced by the sagging global economy, the company saw sales in the business plunge from 927.3 billion won in 2012 to 461.1 billion in 2015.
The company plans to accelerate its efforts to win more value-added plant projects with a focus on the Middle Eastern countries, including Iran. The Iranian desalination plant will employ reverse osmosis technology to covert seawater into fresh water.
In May, Doosan acquired a project to construct the Reverse Osmosis seawater desalination plant in Kuwait. At that time, it said the company received the Notice of Award for Phase 1 of the RO-type plant project, which is worth about 450 billion won, in Doha from the Ministry of Electricity & Water (MEW). The plant, which is to be constructed in Doha, some 20km east of Kuwait City, will produce about 270,000 tons of freshwater daily, a volume enough for 900,000 residents to consume concurrently.
Doosan will conduct the project through the EPC method, in which it will comprehensively execute the entire process ranging from design and supply of materials and equipment, to construction and commissioning, and will start freshwater production in November 2018. The company is also set to conduct operation and maintenance work until November 2023 after completion of the project.
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Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has become the first company to win a desalination project with Sazeh Sazan since the lifting of sanctions imposed against Iran(Photos: Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction).
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