Tariq Al-Wuhaybi
Sector Correspondent
Infrastructure and state capability correspondent
Tariq Al-Wuhaybi covers the delivery layer of Oman Vision 2040: digital infrastructure, enterprise platforms, and the institutional capability required to make large public and private initiatives stick.
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Business Signal
One Saudi Deal Just Put $4.2 Billion Into an Omani City. That's 18 of Oman's Annual School Budgets.
A single Saudi-backed real estate project on Oman's coast just got flagged by the UN as one of Asia's biggest new investments. It's worth 18 times what Oman spent building 42 schools this year, but the country's wider investment numbers tell a more complicated story.
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56,000 Applied for Oman's Golden Visa. Zero Have Been Approved. Here's Why.
Oman copied Dubai's golden visa playbook, then built it around government bonds and stock listings instead of villas. Nine months in, roughly 56,000 people have applied and the government has not approved a single one.
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16 New Fintechs in One Year. Oman Is Quietly Building a Financial System for People Traditional Banks Ignored.
Oman approved 16 new fintech licences in 2025 and launched a formal digital banks framework. Here is what the structural shift means for the young, the self-employed, and anyone a traditional bank ever turned away.
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Oman's Industrial FDI Just Grew 27%. Here Is What That Means If You Are Looking for a Job.
Foreign investment in Oman has crossed RO30.9 billion. But the headline number is not the real story. Manufacturing FDI is growing almost twice as fast as the total, and it is creating a different kind of job than an oil well ever did.
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7 Things Oman Quietly Delivered in the Last 12 Months That Most People Missed
From a refinery that runs on Omani hands to desalination plants keeping taps on in remote towns, here are seven concrete projects that actually changed daily life in the Sultanate.
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Dubai Nearly Went Bankrupt Building Paradise. Here Is the Debt Trap Oman Is Deliberately Avoiding.
In 2009, Dubai's flagship development conglomerate asked creditors for a standstill on $26 billion in debt, showing exactly how fast a boom-driven model can collapse. Oman watched that happen, went through its own fiscal crisis, and made a different choice.
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Dubai Has 95 Million Passengers. Oman Has 6 Million. So Why Is Oman's Aviation Strategy Smarter?
One year since Oman Air joined the Oneworld alliance, the numbers tell a story about a smarter aviation bet: forget the transit war, win on cargo and actual visitors who stay.
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From EV Batteries to Green Steel: The 5 Industries Foreign Investors Are Quietly Building in Oman
Manufacturing FDI in Oman grew 28% in a year, and 105 new projects funded partly by overseas capital are now under way. Here is exactly what is being built, and who is paying for it.
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Oman's Green Power Share Doubled in 12 Months. Here Are the 10 Projects Behind What Comes Next.
Oman's renewable electricity share jumped from 4.26 percent to 9.46 percent of the national grid in a single year. Here are the 10 active clean energy projects driving the next leap, and what they mean for everyday Omanis.
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Mobile Payments in Oman Jumped 317% in One Year. Here Is What Built That Number.
Mobile payment transactions quadrupled in volume and tripled in value in a single year. The answer is 42 licensed fintech firms, a brand-new digital bank law, and an ecosystem that is still being built.
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Britain Put $42 Billion Into Oman. Now It Is Moving From Oil to Green Hydrogen.
Britain accounts for 52% of all foreign investment in Oman, a lead built on decades of oil. Now Britain's newest bets are landing in green hydrogen. Here is what that shift means for the country.
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Oman Moved 90% of Its Government Online. Here Is What That Means for Your Day.
From job-matching to licence renewals and health appointments, Oman has digitised 2,277 government services and climbed to 41st globally on the UN e-government index. Here is what the numbers mean on the ground.
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Oman Completed 97% of Its Five-Year Plan. Here Are 6 Things You Can Actually See.
From a $9 billion refinery to 188 new schools, Oman's Tenth Five-Year Plan closed at 97% delivery. Here is what that number looks like on the ground.
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Oman's Banks Are 90% Omani. The UAE's Whole Private Sector Targets 8%. Here Is That 30-Year Gap.
One sector in Oman has quietly achieved what the entire UAE private economy is still working toward. The country's banking industry has maintained close to 90% Omani staffing for decades. The UAE has set 8% as its private-sector target. Here is the story behind that comparison.
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5 Dubai Problems That Oman Chose Not to Have
From a property market that crashed 50% to Emiratis becoming a tiny minority at home, Dubai's speed came with documented costs. Here is how Oman is writing a different story.
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Oman Just Signed $7.5 Billion in Deals in a Single Day. Here Is What Gets Built.
Ten investors committed $7.54 billion at Duqm on June 9, 2026, covering green hydrogen, EV battery materials, power generation, and tourism. Here is what actually happens next.
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Dubai's Free Zones Employ Almost No Emiratis. Oman Just Created 4,467 Local Jobs Running the Same Model.
Oman is building free zones on Dubai's template, but with a local hire requirement Dubai never wrote. In 2025, that produced 4,467 new Omani jobs and a Duqm workforce where Omanis now make up more than a quarter of all employees.
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MDO Opens the Build Tender for Oman's First Bulk Minerals Port. What Al Shuwaymiyah Commits to in Dhofar.
Minerals Development Oman formally launched a Design and Build tender for the Al Shuwaymiyah port on May 26, moving a $419 million minerals export facility from signed partnership into active construction procurement.
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Sohar Locks Financing for Oman's First Direct-Supply Industrial Solar Plant
O-Green achieved financial close on a 93 MW solar plant at Sohar Industrial City, the first project in Oman to supply factories with solar power under a direct-supply model. Financed by Ahli Islamic Bank and already over 60 percent complete, the plant is expected to begin commercial operations in September 2026, serving more than 200 industrial facilities.
Foreign Relations Watch
From India's CEPA to Botswana's Mines: Oman's Most Consequential Foreign Moves This Spring
Four foreign-relations developments between April and mid-May 2026 moved beyond protocol into territory that could shift Oman's trade geometry: the India CEPA nears a June implementation date, three deals were signed in Botswana covering solar, oil storage, and mineral exploration, and a Kazakhstan joint investment platform locked in a three-billion-dollar portfolio.