FAQ

The challenges faced by the Oil industry in the EOR, is that the implementation of these techniques is difficult and expensive and can be used only if it is economically justified. A lot of time and money is invested in conducting researches and studying the feasibility of these techniques.  In addition, some techniques need certain circumstances of heat and pressure to work economically. They also need certain conditions and high procedures of health, safety and environment because of the toxic gases, in addition to the produced amounts of polluted water that need to be disposed in a manner that is environmentally safe. Beside the difficulties in finding highly skillful employees and training the national cadres on implementing these projects.

The opportunities are represented by the implementation of these techniques for faster and larger amounts of Oil and conduct the feasibility study to implement the appropriate techniques in other fields in future. These techniques help in the utmost utilization of the burned natural gas for generating steam and power and therefore reducing gas emissions that causes the global warming. Also It is considered as a big opportunity in creating jobs for Omanis and developing the employees abilities and sharpening their skills for these techniques and big projects. Therefore, the application of these projects is important to achieve long-term sustainable development for oil sector in the Sultanate in economic, social, and environmental fields.

MEM has made a strategy for employing in the field of Oil and Gas through setting an elaborate plan starting with Omanization of qualifications and graduates after sorting and analyzing the jobs in the employment committees in the companies working in the felid of the oil and gas sector.

The Ministry also has a long term plan with a vision of qualifying and training all the graduates in the Sultanate especially in the field of Oil and Gas. It aims to qualify and train through attracting expertise that will enrich knowledge, experience, and creativeness in this field. 

There are some initiatives for attracting graduates with lower grades in the academic study by companies to qualify these graduates to work in the fields related to the concession areas in different governorates and regions of the Sultanate, and through career progression in different jobs they will obtain the need experience and skill in that field.

Oil and Gas sector is considered as one of the biggest sectors in terms of its contribution to the gross revenues andGDP. The Ministry of Energy and Minerals works in cooperation with companies working in the sector on developing the Omani human resources and enhance their scientific and experience qualifications and raise the level of their participation and performance in these sectors.

Thanks to the intensive training program and specialized scientific scholarship, the qualified national cadres has increased to work in all the levels of Oil industry. The Ministry continuously monitors the plans and Omanization programs in all the oil companies and develop the functional, administrational, and technical skills development.

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