Middle East Industry
Six contracts worth more than RO 56 million signed at Sur Industrial City in the first half
By Staff Writer | 16 August 2026
The six investors take more than 60,000 square metres across tourism, energy, gas, telecommunications and food production, and detailed design is now finished for a ship docking facility serving shipbuilding and repair.
Sur Industrial City, which operates under the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates in Oman, signed six investment contracts during the first half of 2026 with a stated combined investment value of more than RO 56 million. The six take a combined area of more than 60,000 square metres and cover tourism, energy, gas, telecommunications and food production. The estate reported the figures on 15 August.
The establishment puts cumulative investment in the city at RO 2.3 billion as at the end of June.
Madayn is preparing to implement a lineup of key future projects in Sur Industrial City. These developments include the maintenance of Wadi Crossing No 6, extending irrigation water to the Green Belt area in the city, and the infrastructure development for the ship docking area dedicated to shipbuilding and maintenance industry.
Eng Nasser bin Hamoud al Mabsali, Director General of Sur Industrial City
What was designed in the first half, and what was built
Two design packages reached completion in the six months. Detailed designs for the ship docking facility were finished, and the general and detailed design for the city's own master plan was completed alongside them. On the operating side, trial operations began at the solar power plant the estate identifies as Sur-1.
Design complete is not construction started. No award, contractor or construction programme was named for the ship docking facility.
The establishment also says the estate is preparing to offer investment opportunities in training, medical and quarry uses. It does not give a date for those, and it does not put a value on them.
Reading it as a supplier or a contractor
An estate reporting completed detailed design on a marine facility is an estate that will tender that facility. For a marine civils contractor, a dredging specialist or a fabricator, the useful piece of information here is not the RO 56 million, which belongs to the six investors and not to the works. It is that the design stage which normally precedes procurement has been declared finished, on the record, by the body that will run the tender.
The same reading applies to the wadi crossing maintenance and the irrigation extension to the green belt. Both are estate infrastructure rather than tenant works, so both are likely to be let by the establishment itself rather than by an occupier, and both are the sort of package that is priced against ground conditions and access rather than against a headline capital value.
Two cautions sit on the other side. The six contracts reported are investment commitments by tenants, and a signed usufruct or investment contract is a long way short of a construction contract, so nothing in the RO 56 million is yet work in the market. And the sector mix, which spreads across five unrelated industries, means the building types behind those commitments will vary widely, from process plant to hospitality fit out, with nothing published yet to say which is which.
The number to watch is not the cumulative RO 2.3 billion, which measures the estate's history. It is whether the ship docking infrastructure goes out to tender on the strength of a design the establishment has already told the market is complete.