Business

  • Tuesday, 1 February, 2011

    By A Staff Reporter - MUSCAT — A group of top financial experts from the City of London will be speaking at a special investment seminar being hosted on Monday, February 7, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Muscat — offering delegates high level advice on a broad range of investment strategies that can be

  • Tuesday, 1 February, 2011

    MUSCAT — With the rising global demand for energy and strengthened efforts to explore new methods and technologies to boost oil production in the region, the need for avenues and venues to satisfy this demand is essential. MEALF 2011, the sixth edition of the Middle East Artificial Lift Forum, manag

  • Tuesday, 1 February, 2011

    By A Staff Reporter - MUSCAT — Oman Oil Marketing Company (omanoil) has launched the CEO Award of Excellence, a first-of-its-kind programme that has been introduced to drive omanoil’s staff to achieve excellence in all areas of operations while maximising efficiency and productivity. Spearheaded by

  • Tuesday, 1 February, 2011

    By A Staff Reporter - MUSCAT — A’Saffa Foods is taking a leading role in the campaign of domestic self sufficient for its food requirements and reducing the nation’s dependence on imported products. With a home grown market share for poultry products of over 25 per cent and plans to increase this

  • Tuesday, 1 February, 2011

    By A Staff Reporter - MUSCAT — KPMG, a leading international firm offering professional services including Audit, Tax and Advisory services, organised a breakfast seminar at InterCon yesterday on the subject of ‘Debt Refinancing in the Middle East — The Independent Advisor's Perspective’, the latest

  • Monday, 31 January, 2011

    By Conrad Prabhu - MUSCAT — Preparations are underway for the soft-opening this April of Oman’s world-class ship repair yard at Duqm, a top executive of Oman Dry-dock Company (ODC) announced here yesterday. Myong Jun Park, Chief Executive Officer of the state-owned company, said the requisite infras

  • Monday, 31 January, 2011

    MUSCAT — Construction work on the airside infrastructure facilities package of Duqm Airport will commence shortly at a cost of around RO 44 million, according to a senior representative of engineering consultancy firm Parsons, the main consultants to the Oman Airports Management Company (OAMC). In

  • Monday, 31 January, 2011

    By A Staff reporter - MUSCAT — His Highness Sayyid Harib bin Thuwaini al Said, Assistant Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers for Conferences, will preside over the formal inauguration of the Oman Construction Summit 2011 today at Afrah Ballroom of Grand Hyatt Muscat. A high-profile event

  • Monday, 31 January, 2011

    By A Staff Reporter - MUSCAT — BankMuscat Investment Banking, the leading financial adviser in the Sultanate, has successfully closed financing for the $562 million PET project of Octal Petrochemicals. BankMuscat acted as the financial adviser to Octal and raised equity, subordinated debt and seni

  • Monday, 31 January, 2011

    New brand identities unveiled for MBPS and Petrogas - By A Staff Reporter - MUSCAT — MB Holding Group of companies held a grand ceremony celebrating its entry into its 30th year of operations. The occasion was also marked with the Long Service Awards — honouring employees from various companies of t