Category Amount Petroleum (1) Total Manufacturing / Curtiss / BP / mid-1999 Maersk / Electronic Equipment 0 Transportation Equipment 0 Other Manufacturing / Estate (1) Services 0 Other Industries / Royal Dutch Shell / Amoco / Total / Enron / Maersk / Allied Products / Structural Policies Oman / Petroleum Development Oman / Oman Development Bank / Hillwood Strategic Services / TOTAL ALL INDUSTRIES / Korea Gas / Citibank / Salalah Port Services / /
Country
Oman / United Arab Emirates / Japan / United States / Korea / United Kingdom / India / Denmark / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Reorganization / Business Partnership / /
Facility
Muscat’s Seeb Airport / Oman’s Washington embassy / Manah plant / LNG plant / Salalah Port / /
Holiday
Ramadan / /
IndustryTerm
overall oil production / oil producer / investors with subsidized sites and services / high oil prices / specifications systems / less public services / average daily oil production / crude oil revenue / Oil revenues / gas-driven projects / natural gas sales / light manufacturing plants / pirated computer software / non-oil revenue / oil / oil revenue / bank uses / gas pipelines / agency law / labor law / electricity / pharmaceuticals / higher oil prices / airline / possible solution / bank / telecommunications / defense equipment / computer software / low oil prices / banking / oil production / pharmaceutical products / oil prices / increased oil prices / pirated software / law / /
NaturalFeature
Arabian Peninsula / /
Organization
Central Bank of Oman / International Standards Organization / International Monetary Fund / Oman’s Washington embassy / U.S. Department of Commerce / U.S. Department of State / Bureau of Economic / Ministry of National Economy / Labor Welfare Board / World Trade Organization / Ministry of National Economy Publications / Labor Force / Bureau of Economic Analysis / Tender Board / Defense Ministry / Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries / Strategic Reserve Fund / Patent Office / State General Reserve Fund / World Bank / Indian government / Royal Oman Police / Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor / International Labor Organization / Omani government / Ministry of Commerce and Industry / World Intellectual Property Organization / /
Person
Sultan Qaboos / /
Position
also selected international financial advisors / Major U.S. engineering / legal counsel / small oil producer / businessmen / General Budget / foreign worker / important economic actor / /
2000 Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices Released by the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs U.S. Department of State, March 2001 OMAN Key Economic Indicators