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MUSCAT, aug 29 - The joint venture Duqm Refinery and Petrochemicals Industries Company LLC (DRPIC) has tapped a leading Dutch engineering firm to provide the technology for a pair of world-scale...

Marking a key milestone in the implementation of a long-awaited and strategically vital project, an Oman-based company has signed a contract with a well-known Chinese engineering contracting firm for...

MUSCAT, AUG 26 - Oman Aviation Group (OAG), which is overseeing the development of a thriving aviation sector suitably aligned with the country’s tourism and logistics growth strategies, says it is...

Muscat: Omani gypsum exports surpassed 1 million metric tons (MT) per month for the first time last month, reinforcing the Sultanate’s dominant position as the world’s biggest exporter of the...

Muscat: Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), the country’s largest producer of hydrocarbons, says it is exploring the potential use of ‘reject water’ from its reverse osmosis desalination plants to...

MUSCAT:Omani gypsum exports surpassed 1 million metric tonnes (MT) per month for the first time last month, reinforcing the Sultanate’s dominant position as the world’s biggest exporter of the...

MUSCAT, AUG 25 - Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), the country’s largest producer of hydrocarbons, says it is exploring the potential use of ‘reject water’ from its reverse osmosis desalination...

Muscat: Underscoring the Omani government’s ambitions to develop a thriving aquaculture industry in the Sultanate, Blue Waters (BWs) - a group company of Fisheries Development Oman (FDO) wholly...

Satellite technology is among an array of tools being deployed by the Public Authority for Water (Diam) to combat leaks in the country’s ever-expanding water transmission, distribution and supply...

Muscat: Fresh and frozen fish landings at numerous locations along the Sultanate’s lengthy coastline totaled 580,240 tons in 2019, up from 279,160 tons in 2016 – representing an increase of 107...

Oman Environmental Services Holding Company SAOC (be’ah), the Sultanate’s solid waste management flagship, has announced a two-week extension in the deadline for the submission of proposals from...

Growing numbers of local and international companies are setting up operations in specially created zones earmarked for industrial and logistics activities within the concession area of Port of Duqm...

Muscat - Swiss-based international agri-business trader Ameropa has announced that it has struck a deal with OQ Trading Limited (OQT), the trading arm of OQ – the Sultanate’s global integrated...

The Public Authority for Mining (PAM) is weighing a decision to either renew or cancel dozens of chromite mining licenses that have remained “inactive” for inordinately long periods of time...

Al Jifnain Terminal – the Sultanate’s principal complex for the storage and distribution of transportation fuels – handled over 70 per cent of the country’s fuel requirements in 2019,...

Provision has been made for the inclusion of a passenger terminal at Port of Duqm should a decision be taken in the future to open up the gateway, which anchors a mega industrial and economic hub, to...

Sinyar – the newly integrated identity of Oman National Transport Company (Mwasalat) and National Ferries Company (NFC) – says it is gearing up to unveil its much-heralded Intelligent...

Seeking to build on its recent success in bringing Oman’s first offshore oilfield off the east coast into commercial production, Masirah Oil Limited (MOL) says it plans to drill a second production...

Electricity output from the Dhofar Wind Power project – the first utility-scale wind farm facility in the Sultanate – totaled an impressive 74 gigawatt-hours (GWh) over the eight months since it...

Oman Real Estate Investment Fund – the first Real Estate Investment Fund (REIF / REIT) in the Sultanate – says it is committed to distributing its maiden dividend in October in line with a pledge...