Umm Al Houl Power Company Announces Completing 93% of Umm Al-Hall Project Works

September 17, 2017

Jamal Al Khalaf, CEO of Umm Al Houl Power Company, a subsidiary of Qatar Electricity and Water Co. (QEWC), announced the completion of 93% of the QAR 11 billion Umm Al Houl Power Station.

The station’s power generation capacity amounts to 136 million gallons of water a day and 2,520 megawatts (MW) of electricity, the CEO said on Sunday, according to a filing to the Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE).

The power plant supplies Qatar with about 1,600 MW of electricity and 60 million gallons of water per day pumped into the Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation’s (Kahramaa) network, he added.

Al Khalaf noted that the project completed 38 million working hours successfully without exposing any of its 15,000 workers in the project to injury, according to the statement.

The political rift that took place between Qatar and several Gulf and Arab states has not affected operations at the power plant, the CEO said, noting that some equipment relevant to the project was shipped to Qatar through Kuwaiti and Omani ports.

Umm Al Houl Power Company, which is 60%-owned by QEWC, secures 25% of Qatar’s electricity needs and 30% of its water needs.