Creating Oman’s Green Hydrogen Market: From Export Ambition to Domestic Economic Value This initiative captures the outcomes of a national multi-stakeholder roundtable convened by MCREEE on 25 October 2023, aimed at identifying how Oman can reduce green hydrogen development costs while increasing local economic participation across the full hydrogen value chain. The roundtable brought together 53 specialists from government, industry, finance, and academia, organized around four thematic pillars: Innovation...

Critical Minerals for Oman’s Energy Transition: From Resource Security to Circular Economic Value Oman’s Clean-Energy Minerals Initiative is a strategic Majan Council analysis that links Oman’s renewable energy and green hydrogen targets to the real-world mineral and material requirements needed to deliver them by 2030 and 2040. The initiative shows that the energy transition is not only a climate and technology challenge—it is also a supply-chain, industrial, and economic competitiveness challenge. Scaling solar, wind,...

A Cluster-Based Strategy for Industrial Decarbonization in the GCC  This initiative examines the central role of industrial clusters in shaping the GCC’s decarbonization pathway, recognizing them as both the largest source of industrial energy demand and CO₂ emissions and the most powerful leverage point for structural transition. Across the GCC, industrial activity accounts for roughly 39% of total energy consumption and 38% of CO₂ emissions, concentrated in more than 70 industrial clusters spanning cement, steel, chemicals, refineries, aluminum, fertilizers, and...