Ras Abu Aboud


Ras Abu Aboud is a district located in the municipality of Doha in Qatar. It is an industrial district containing power and desalination plants. It accommodates one of the three major power stations which supply electricity to the whole country. Ras Abu Aboud Stadium, one of the proposed venues for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, will be built here.

History

In the 1820s, George Barnes Brucks carried out the first British survey of the Persian Gulf. He recorded the following notes about Ras Abu Aboud, which he referred to as Ras Boo Aboot:
The British Hydrographic Office conducted a survey of the Persian Gulf in 1890 and wrote the following description of Ras Abu Aboud:

Landmarks

Power station

Inaugurated in 1963, the Ras Abu Aboud power station was built at a cost of QR 1 billion. It had a capacity of 60 MW in 1970, and an expansion in 1972 increased this to 90 MW. After several more expansions, by 1976 its capacity had been increased to 102.5 MW.
By 1984 its capacity was more than doubled to 210 MW.

Desalination plant

In 1983, over QR 50 million had been invested in the desalination plant and it had a production of 11.5 million gallons per day.

Qatar Petroleum

handles its Doha operations out of Ras Abu Aboud. The following facilities of QP are based in Ras Abu Aboud:
Currently, the underground Ras Abu Aboud Metro Station is under construction, having been launched during Phase 1. Once completed, it will be part of Doha Metro's Gold Line.

Sports

, one of the venues for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, will be constructed here. Its design was conceived of by Spanish-based company Fenwick Iribarren Architects, and it will be built of recycled materials from Doha Port. It is planned to be disassembled after the World Cup comes to a close.

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