Petrochemicals News in Oman
| 12/28/2022 - SABIC, OQ and Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) have signed a Project Development Agreement of a jointly owned petrochemical complex in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm (SEZAD), the Sultanate of O... |
| 5/12/2018 - Having signed in place agreements for the implementation of the $7 billion Duqm Refinery project, the joint venture partners — Oman Oil Company and Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) — are now prepa... |
| 9/13/2017 - Commercial operation of Sebacic Oman’s Duqm project will start by the end of this year and pave way for exports in the first quarter of 2018, an official said. The company will produce Sebacic Acid. ... |
| 4/4/2017 - Oman Oil Duqm Development Company, one of the verticals of the wholly government owned strategic investment group Oman Oil Company, has unveiled plans for the establishment of a mammoth petrochemicals... |
| 10/10/2016 - Under the auspices of H.E. Sultan bin Salim Al Habsi, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Planning and Chairman of Orpic Board of Directors, Orpic celebrated the ground breaking of Liwa Plast... |
| 8/1/2016 - State-owned Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company’s (Orpic) $9 billion worth of ongoing projects will make the company’s Sohar site one of the best integrated refining and petrochemical... |
| 2/20/2016 - A joint venture (JV) between Omani investors and an Indian entrepreneur plans to build the world’s biggest plant for Sebacic acid in the Duqm free zone. Work on the state-of-the-art export-oriented pr... |
| 2/16/2016 - Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), the majority government-owned oil and gas producer, is investing in cutting-edge sulphur extraction and recovery facilities as part of its efforts to harness the hydr... |
| 12/18/2015 - Tecnimont S.p.A. has been awarded a contract for the realizationof a Polyethylene Plant (HDPE/LLDPE) and a Polypropylene plant (PP) on an EPC basis for a value of approximately USD 895 million by Oman... |
| 3/1/2015 - Oman International Petrochemical Industries Company (OMPET), a subsidiary of Oman Oil Company — the wholly Omani government-owned energy and strategic investment vehicle — is targeting financial close... |
| 3/17/2014 - British oil giant BP is negotiating with the Oman government to build a large petrochemical plant in Duqm, with an envisaged investment of over $1 billion, to manufacture acetic acid using a patented ... |
| 9/29/2013 - Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic), one of Oman’s largest companies and one of the Middle East’s most rapidly growing businesses, plans to invest around $5-6 billion in a num... |
| 7/23/2013 - Oman plans to invite bids to build a steam cracker plant worth $3.5 billion with a production capacity of 1 million tonnes a year of petrochemical products, two sources close to the project said. ... |
| 3/3/2013 - The Salalah Methanol Company (SMC) has achieved 3 million tonnes of methanol production on February 22. This is the first such achievement since the plant startup in May 2010. This milestone was achie... |
| 1/28/2013 - Oman Oil Marketing Company (omanoil) has entered 2013 with over 140 filling stations, 80 ahlain convenience stores and a dozen car wash facilities in strategic locations across the Sultanate, meeting ... |
| 10/21/2012 - Salalah Free Zone (SFZ) is rapidly acquiring the trappings of a major petrochemicals hub with construction due to commence early next year on yet another world-scale project. The caustic soda and ethy... |
| 10/18/2012 - Stepping up efforts to capitalise on its hydrocarbons wealth, Oman is boosting its downstream industrial capacity by expanding the petrochemicals sector and providing the fuel stocks needed to power o... |
| 9/8/2010 - OCTAL Petrochemicals recently signed a contract with Uhde Inventa-Fischer to build a 550,000 tpy plant for the production of PET resin. The contract for delivery of two lines unique to OCTAL will use ... |
| 2/4/2010 - JBF has signed MOU with Oman Oil Company (part of Oman Refinery) owned by Government of Oman for setting up a 1.2 Million (12 Lacs) Tonnes per annum Purified Terephthalic Acid – PTA plant at Oman as a... |
| 7/4/2006 - Dr Mohammed bin Hamad Al Romhi, minister of oil and gas and board chairman of Omani Aromatics Co; and deputy chairman of Oman Oil Co. board; yesterday signed the engineering and construction agreement... |
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Aromatic Solvents
Butene
Cleaning
Corrosion Inhibiting
Crude Oil
Diesel Fuel
Ethylene
Fluids Drilling, Completion, Workover & Stimulation
Fluids/Chemicals
Fracturing Sand
Fuel oil
Gasoline (Lead free)
General
Jet fuel
Kerosene. Domestic use
Lubricants, Oils & Greases
Nitrogen
Oil Treating & Refining
Polyethylene
Polyvinyl chloride
Propane
Sand, Sandblast
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