SALALAH: A customer getting into the Power and Minerals Exhibition 2026 in Salalah can transfer inside of mins from an oil reservoir and a countrywide gasoline pipeline to mineral samples, electrical cars, synthetic intelligence and Oman’s plans for inexperienced hydrogen and carbon markets.
Organised by way of the Ministry of Power and Minerals in cooperation with firms working around the sector, it runs till August 6. Its mentioned goal is to make industries normally described thru technical stories and big funding figures comprehensible to voters, citizens and guests throughout the Khareef Dhofar. The respectable subject material on show additionally units out the place the sphere’s economics and infrastructure stay underneath construction.
Opened on Saturday at Atin by way of HH Sayyid Marwan bin Turki al Mentioned, Governor of Dhofar, the exhibition brings in combination 9 interactive sections explaining how oil, gasoline, electrical energy, minerals and rising low-carbon applied sciences hook up with trade, shipping, employment, public products and services and day-to-day existence.
In remarks issued on the opening, HH Sayyid Marwan stated the exhibition mirrored “the importance of strengthening direct communication and consolidating the partnership between government institutions, sector companies and society”.
Opened by way of HH Sayyid Marwan bin Turki al Mentioned, Governor of Dhofar, the exhibition brings in combination 9 interactive sections.
He stated Dhofar possessed robust possible in renewable power, inexperienced hydrogen and mineral assets, supported by way of the governorate’s strategic location and advanced infrastructure, which might assist draw in tasks and funding, localise industries and create sustainable added worth.
Oman’s manufacturing of crude oil and condensates averaged 1.0021 million barrels according to day (bpd) in 2025, whilst exports averaged 843,700 bpd. The rustic held an estimated 4.728 billion barrels of crude oil and condensate reserves, in step with the ministry’s sector signs.
Herbal gasoline manufacturing averaged 151.2 million cubic metres according to day and liquefied herbal gasoline exports totalled 11.3 million metric tonnes. The oil and gasoline sector recorded an Omanisation price of 91.6 according to cent.
Those figures give context to the oil and gasoline sections, which hint the trade from geological surveys, exploration and drilling to manufacturing, processing, transportation, refining and production. Slightly than presenting a barrel of oil as the general product, the exhibition presentations how hydrocarbons input wider financial chains, together with building, healthcare, communications, shipping and commercial production.
The site provides that message added weight. Dhofar isn’t just webhosting a seasonal public match; it holds explicit property in electrical energy transmission, renewable power, hydrogen and minerals that function within the ministry’s plans for the sphere’s subsequent section.
A 400-kilovolt transmission mission linking Al Duqm with the Dhofar electrical energy community used to be reported by way of the ministry to be 87 according to cent entire, with of completion scheduled for October 2026. The mission is meant to combine Oman’s northern and southern energy programs, beef up electrical energy safety and supply better flexibility as new technology is added.
The 50 MW Dhofar Wind Farm at Harweel is in operation, whilst further wind websites in Dhofar, together with Sadah and Shaleem, and at Al Duqm function within the mission pipeline to 2031. A separate scheme to provide the Hallaniyat Islands with renewable energy and battery garage is because of be tendered throughout 2026.
Salalah could also be considered one of 3 wide spaces — along Al Duqm and Al Jazir — the place awarded green-hydrogen tasks are concentrated. In minerals, ministry subject material describes Oman as preserving the sector’s greatest commercially exploitable gypsum reserves, with primary deposits in Thamrait, Shaleem and Hallaniyat Islands, along limestone and marble assets in Dhofar.
