Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity & Water has awarded a KD88m ($313m) contract to the local Kharafi National to operate and maintain a co-generation power and water plant at Shuaiba North. The recently-constructed project has a power capacity of 750MW and a water capacity of 45 million gallons a day.

Kharafi National will operate and maintain the project that was developed by Japan’s Mitsui. The power plant construction work was sub-contracted to South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction while the desalination unit was subcontracted to Italy’s Fisia Italimpianti.

The ministry awarded the contract to Mitsui in July 2007. The construction of the power plant was completed in June 2010 and the desalination plant was completed in February 2011.