State-owned energy investment firm Oman Oil Co (OOC) will announce a new structure later this year, chief executive Issam al-Zadjali told reporters on Sunday.
"With the new structure, the company will be focusing more on Duqm, managing our international assets and selling some of our assets by privatising some of OOC's daughter companies," he said.
Zadjali did not specify which companies might be privatised; OOC has interests in petrochemicals, power generation, shipping, and oil exploration and production. The company and its partners had invested a total of 9.4 billion rials ($24.4 billion) in companies within Oman as of 2013, according to its latest annual report; 65 percent of its current investments are within Oman. One of OOC's major projects is construction of an oil refinery in the Omani coastal town of Duqm.