VOL. XXXIX No. 62 2-December-1996OMAN

Oman Commissions Al-Manah Power Station The first electricity power station in the Middle East to be built by the private sector on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis, the 90-megawatt Al-Manah Power Station in Oman, was commissioned on 24 November.The station was built at a cost of $213mn under the terms of an agreement concluded with the OmanGovernment in April 1994. The agreement specifies that the plant's output will be sold to the Omani...