The Mineral Industry of Oman in 2014
2014 Minerals Yearbook OMAN U.S. Department of the Interior December 2017 U.S. Geological Survey THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF OMAN By Waseem A. Abdulameer and Mowafa Taib The Sultanate of Oman, which is a country located on the The Government’s revenue from natural gas, which accounted southeastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, is in a strategic for 12.0% of its total revenue, increased by 12.9% in 2014 location owing to its proximity to global energy shipping compared with a decrease of 5.6% in 2013. Crude oil revenue pathways at the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman. In accounted for 43.8% of the country’s GDP, while industrial 2014, Oman’s economy continued to be largely dependent on sector revenue accounted for 18.1%, and natural gas sector hydrocarbon revenues, which accounted for more than 84% revenue accounted for 3.4%. Oman’s economic growth was of Government revenue in 2014. Oman accounted for about driven by the increase of the nonpetroleum sector, which 1.1% of the world’s production of crude oil and 0.8% of the accounted for 60.2% of the GDP in 2014 compared with 57.2% world’s production of natural gas in 2014. At the end of 2014, in 2013; the nonpetroleum industrial sector consisted mainly of the country’s proved crude oil and condensate reserves were industrial and services activities. In 2014, the share of the nonoil estimated to be 5,300 million barrels (Mbbl). In addition to industrial sector, which included aluminum, nitrogen fertilizer, mineral fuels, Oman supplied the world with such mineral and steel manufacturing, in the GDP was 18.1%.
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