As part of a mega multibillion dollar power and water project near the Saudi Arabian city of Yanbu, Doosan heavy Industries Vietnam announced today the signing of a contract to design, engineer and build four 4,400-ton multistage flash desalination evaporators. 

This virtual oasis will be built in Vietnam and the four “plug-n-play” units that will each be the size of a football pitch will produce enough water to meet the needs of approximately 1.2 million people. They will be shipped intact from the company’s Central Vietnam dedicated and purpose-built port in 2014. 

The overall project in Al Madinah Province, Saudi Arabia is the largest of its kind ever undertaken and Doosan was selected because of its cutting-edge desalination technology and vast experience in the field. The four desalination units in this project will be among the world’s largest ever engineered in both size and production capacity. 

Each unit will desalinate enough seawater to produce 20 million Imperial Gallons/day, or approximately 91 million liters of fresh potable water to meet the daily needs of millions in Saudi Arabia. Dimensions of the units are expected to be: 16 meters high x 33 meters wide x 139 meters long.

Earlier this year Doosan Vina completed and shipped three similar sized and capacity evaporation plants to the Ras Al Khair desalination project in Eastern Saudi Arabia.