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MUSCAT: Italy’s Alps Blockchain SpA, a tech company specialising in the generation of computational power for digital mining, has announced the start of construction work on the second phase of its...

MUSCAT: Oman Tourism Development Company (Omran Group), the tourism investment arm of the Omani government, has unveiled the design of its exclusive Club Med Musandam Resort, currently in the early...

MUSCAT: OQ Gas Networks (OQGN), Oman’s National Infrastructure Provider for hydrogen pipelines, has committed to leveraging its expertise as the country’s sole gas transportation operator to drive...

MUSCAT: Leading international power developers are among a dozen companies that have signaled their interest in competing for contracts to develop one of Oman’s biggest gas-based Independent Power...

MUSCAT: Oman’s Masirah Oil Limited (MOL) has engaged UK-based advisory firm Gneiss Energy to help secure a farm-in partner in the exploration and development of its wholly-owned Block 50 concession...

MUSCAT, MARCH 29 Majority state-owned Oman Electricity Transmission Company (OETC), the operator of the country’s national grid, says it has budgeted an expenditure of $2.2 billion towards the...

MUSCAT, MARCH 28 Underscoring growing, domestic customer demand for alternative fuels, leading fuel marketing company Oman Oil Marketing Company SAOG (OOMCO) has revealed that it achieved sales of...

MUSCAT, MARCH 26 Shell has revealed that it plans to relinquish hydrocarbon blocks 42 and 55 – exits that will maintain the energy supermajor’s leading presence in the Sultanate of Oman. The...

MUSCAT, MARCH 25 OQ Exploration & Production (OQEP), one of Oman’s largest oil and gas firms, has been tapped by the Ministry of Energy and Minerals to assist in the joint marketing of as many as...

MUSCAT, MARCH 24 Majority Omani government-owned Omantel, the nation’s biggest integrated telecom company by market share, has reported a significant increase in malicious telecom and cyber...

MUSCAT, MARCH 23 OQ Gas Networks (OQGN), the majority state-owned operator of Oman’s gas transportation network, says it has begun conceptualising the rollout of a pipeline network for the...

MUSCAT: The Integrated Gas Company (IGC), Oman’s sole aggregator and supplier of natural gas, has launched its new Gas Applications Portal, a digital platform designed to simplify how industries...

MUSCAT: Oxy Oman, wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based international energy firm Occidental, achieved hydrocarbon output (corresponding to its production share) averaging 66K barrels of oil equivalent...

MUSCAT: Taxi Muscat, the newest of Oman’s on-demand ride-hailing taxi operators, has announced the introduction of a first-ever Business-to-Business-to-Customer (B2B2C) model, enabling local hotels,...

MUSCAT: The liberalisation and privatisation of Oman’s electricity sector over the past two decades have delivered significant benefits, including attracting substantial foreign direct investment...

MUSCAT: Key public sector stakeholders tasked with fostering the growth of a green hydrogen industry in Oman participated in a recent strategic workshop on the master-planning of a dedicated Green...

MUSCAT: Newly-listed national shipping company Asyad Shipping recorded a net profit of RO 51.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, compared to net earnings of RO 39.5 million for the...

MUSCAT, MARCH 15 Oman Deep Ocean LLC (ODO), the local subsidiary of Singapore-based Transocean Fortune Integrator (Water) [TFIW] – a leading specialist in deep ocean water downstream industries –...

MUSCAT, MARCH 14 Building on Oman’s efforts to deploy sufficient energy storage capacity to address grid intermittency challenges associated with the renewable energy transition, Oman’s...

MUSCAT, MARCH 13 Aviation services providers operating in the Sultanate of Oman are now mandated to manage their carbon emissions following new national regulations issued recently by the Civil...