The contract calls for the developer to design, build, own, finance, operate and maintain for 20 years a seawater cooling plant, offshore intake delivery pipeline system, return water culvert system, long sea outfalls and associated infrastructure. Pumping Station D will serve the proposed olefins II and aromatics plants at Shuaiba and the existing Mina Abdullah refinery, which is currently supplied by Pumping Station B. Capacity will start at about 96,000 cubic metres an hour (cm/h), later rising to 130,000 cm/h.

The client, the Public Investment Authority (PIA), expects to shortlist about four companies for the contract and to invite bids by early October, with a preferred bidder likely to be selected by early December. The UK's Mott MacDonaldis the technical consultant, as it is on the PIA project to revamp and upgrade Pumping Station C (MEED 3:10:03).

Pumping Station D is the second private water project planned in Kuwait. The 300,000-cubic-metre-a-day Sulaibiya wastewater treatment plant is also being carried out on a BOT basis by the local Utilities Development Company(MEED 28:6:02).