First Companies to Produce at Oman’s Ladayn Polymer Park
Global integrated energy group OQ announced that three companies, representing a combined investment of $42 million, will start operations at Oman’s Ladayn Polymer Park in early 2025.
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SABIC, OQ and Kuwait Petroleum Partner on Duqm Project
SABIC, OQ and Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) have agreed to jointly develop a petrochemical complex in Duqm, Oman, reviving a project that stalled in late 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Consortium Studies Oman Green Hydrogen/Ammonia Facility
An international consortium comprising the alternative energy business of Oman’s OQ, Japanese conglomerate Marubeni, industrial gases group Linde and engineering firm Dutco has signed a joint agreement to develop a green hydrogen and green ammonia project in the Salalah Free Zone.
OQ Chemicals Licenses Technologies to Duqm
OQ Chemicals – formerly Oxea – has agreed to license its proprietary technology for the production of ethylene and propylene derivatives to Oman’s Duqm Refinery and Petrochemicals Industries Company (DRPIC).
Oxea Changes Name to OQ Chemicals
German petrochemical intermediates producer Oxea, based at Oberhausen, has changed its name to OQ Chemicals, marking its final integration into Oman’s new petrochemicals and energy giant OQ, headquartered in Muscat.
New Energy Giant Takes Shape in Oman
As part of a master plan to revamp the sultanate’s production infrastructure, the government has decided to roll state-owned Oman Oil Company (OOC), Oman Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC) and six other domestic energy firms into one unit that would also include German oxo intermediates and derivatives producer Oxea.
