VOL. XLI

No. 10

9-March-1998

OMAN

Oman Completes Feasibility Study For Aluminum Smelter

A feasibility study for the construction of an aluminum smelter with a capacity of480,000 tons/year at Sohar in northern Oman at a cost of an estimated $2.4bn has now beencompleted. Work on the new plant is expected to begin in the first quarter of 1999, withcompletion scheduled for March 2001. The Omani Government is reported to have allocated 2trillion cu. ft. of methane gas for the smelter over a period...