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Oman has expressed its inability to export liquefied natural gas to Lithuania for the time being due to unavailability of supplies, media reports said citing secretary general at Omani Foreign Affairs Ministry Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamoud Al Busaidi. Hamoud Al Busaidi said Oman cannot export the...
Petroleum Development Oman’s (PDO) attempts at studying shale gas accumulations within its Block 6 concession have yielded encouraging initial results. Company’s managing director, Raoul Restucci said with encouraging early results, efforts are now focused on testing the producibility of...
Oman is trying to lure international energy firms to evaluate and develop its untapped shale gas resources. Media reports said citing Nasser bin Khamis al Jashmi, Under-Secretary that international investment could help unearth, explore and exploit the Sultanate’s shale gas potential. Earlier...
Oman’s two LNG exporters, Oman LNG and Qalhat LNG are mulling over the possibility of merging with each other in order to reduce costs. Brian Buckley, CEO of Oman LNG, told Muscat Daily that the proposal is currently at very early stage and shareholders have been given 'preliminary evaluations,'...
Oman is likely to award three new hydrocarbon blocks to international oil companies this year, a government official said Monday. The blocks are mainly onshore acreage distributed across the Sultanate. Regarding the decision on the commercialisation of BP’s tight gas reserves in Block 61, the...
Plans of a 230-km-long pipeline carrying natural gas from central Oman to the new Duqm Special Economic Zone (SEZ) on the Wusta coast has firmed up, local media reports said. A corridor for the construction of the pipeline, linking the Saih Nihayda gasfield with Duqm, has already been delineated. The...
Harvest Natural Resources has announced the commencement of drilling operations of the Al Ghubar North–A exploration well on the Qarn Alam Block 64, onshore Oman. The well will test the Al Ghubar North structure, which is a large salt-supported high with stacked reservoir targets in the Barik...
Oman is planning to explore shale gas in concession areas of Petroleum Development Oman and studies to check the viability of the fields are on, an official from the government said. The Sultanate produces 3.5 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas. Meanwhile, negotiations are on between the government...
Oman has become the latest and 11th member of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF). Estimates put Oman’s natural gas reserves at around 30 trillion cubic feet. The country ranks No. 2 in terms of Middle East natural gas exporters. The producers’ group was established as a forum to share...
Oman’s Ministry of Oil and Gas (MOG) is considering investment in coal-bed methane (CBM) exploration and development in the coal-rich sultanate. As national oil companies (NOCs) in China, Indonesia and other Asian nations have done, it is looking for IOCs specialised in this field. The MOG has...