Middle East & Africa Consumption
July 2018
Oman’s power sector is set to consume more gas as new generation capacity comes online.
Rising production from Oman’s Khazzan non-associated gas project will continue to support offtake by the sultanate’s power sector. Oman had 8.43 GW of generation capacity at the end of 2017, almost all of which was gas fired, and the sultanate is expanding its gas-fired capacity even further. The 445 MW second phase of the Salalah gas-fired power plant came online in January, and another 3.2 GW of gas-fired capacity is due...