FAQ

On 15th September 2019, The Ministry of Energy and Mineral MEM has moved to the previous building of Oman Gas Company behind Grand Mall, temporarily until the completion of the maintenance work for its main building in Al Wazarat Street in Al Khuwair.

Please check the following link for directions. https://goo.gl/maps/3uLRSL3vCMzedyRX9

You can find the prices of fuel and oil products through the website of the national subsidy program via https://nss.gov.om/site/home?ln=en

or through its social media platforms (twitter).

The government represented by the Ministry of Energy and Minerals in coordination with Oil and Gas companies has paid tireless efforts for communities near the concession area, through the following:

Establishing local community companies that provide services to larger companies in the region in order to provide job opportunities for locals and find income for the Omani companies’ owners.

Recently the government has adopted a new strategy that aims to increase the opportunity of local communities’ benefits through establishing local closed stock companies in the concession areas through which all citizens ofthe region without any exception can be shareholders and priority is given to the citizens near the oil fields. Provided that companies working in the Oil and Gas sector must ensure that local companies shall sign work contracts in the main work of Oil industry for (10) ten years. In addition to qualifying and training those companies to be one of the big companies working in the Oil field.

MEM plays a major and important role in encouraging and promoting Oil and Gas companies to contribute in developing the social investment and comply to make a positive difference in the community in different fields such as education, health, safety, and social development programs.

In the education field, the Ministry contributes in coordination with the Oil and Gas companies to fund scholarships for the lower income and social security families.

While in the field of safety and decreasing traffic accidents, a couple of companies in coordination with Traffic Safety Institute in Oman Royal Police worked in training a number of driving tutors on preventive driving skills. In addition to that, some companies provided sustainable social initiatives through providing a number of fully equipped ambulances to the Ministry of Health and Royal Oman Police.

In the field of women empowerment, some companies has funded training programs for Omani women to train them the basic computer skills. In addition to the training programs in the traditional crafts and skills, so women can have opportunities to establish their own small businesses.  

The Enhanced Oil Recovery EOR is one of the modern methods used in increasing the extraction of the Oil amount from the Oil field that it might reach 60% or more. EOR comes after the primary recovery stage that means depending on the sufficient normal pressure level inside the oil reservoir for production or secondary recovery stage in which the water flooding or gas injection is implemented or through using different types of pumps through which the pressure level is maintained inside the reservoir and therefore increasing the production.

Once these levels become less effective, or no longer useful to extract more oil, different other types of oil enhanced recovery are used such as: thermal recovery, or chemical injection like polymers or miscible gas injection on other developed techniques.

In general, it means using developed techniques through enhanced oil recovery to produce larger amounts of oil. The Sultanate is considered one of the pioneering countries in implementing these techniques not only in Middle East but worldwide. The Sultanate for instance applies the thermal recovery in Mukhaizna Oil Field which is one of the few projects that uses steam in this regard. Also Qarn Al Alam oil filed is one of the pioneer projects that uses steam injection in the fractures of limestone rocks in addition to Amal west and east oilfield. In miscible gas injection technique, the Harweel project of PDO is one of the pioneering project in this regard, as the company also study the implementation of this technique in other fields. Occidental Oman is conducting a feasibility study for injection of mixed gas in Safah oil field Oman and started drilling an experimental well, while the implementing the injection of  polymer is used in Marmul field in PDO company which came out with good results.

1. Increasing Omanisation and developing the skills of national workforce.
2. Increasing in-country spend on local goods and services.

It consists of the following seven elements with an overarching aim of maximising ICV in the oil & gas sector. These elements are molded into a standard ICV Plan, which is explained in the following FAQ.

1. Investments in Fixed Assets
2. Omanisation in the Work Force
3. Training of Omanis
4. Local Sourcing of Goods
5. Local Sourcing of Subcontracted Services
6. Development of National Suppliers
7. Development of National Training, Education and R&D Institutions