Table of Contents
Executive Summary — 4 Market
Overview — 6 Global Overview — 7
Mega-Urban Regions: Opportunities And Challenges For
Infrastructure — 8 Mega-Urban Regions: Investment
Opportunities And Risks — 9 Table: The World' s 30 Largest
Urban Agglomerations — 11 Table: The World' s Richest
Cities In 2020 By Gdp — 15 Table: The World' s Fastest
Growing Urban Areas — 17 SWOT
Analysis — 19 Oman Infrastructure Industry
SWOT — 19 Oman Political SWOT Industry
SWOT — 19 Oman Economic SWOT — 20 Oman
Business Environment SWOT — 20 Major Infrastructure
Developments and Key Projects — 21 Transport
Infrastructure Overview — 21 New and Ongoing
Projects — 22 Airports — 22
Ports — 23 Roads — 24
Railways — 24 Energy & Utilities Infrastructure
Overview — 25 New and Ongoing
Projects — 26 Power Plants and Transmission
Grids — 26 Oil and Gas Pipelines — 27
Water — 27 Construction Overview — 28
New and Ongoing Projects — 29 Residential
Construction — 29 Commercial
Construction — 29 Industrial
Construction — 30 Tourism — 30 Table:
Oman Major Infrastructure Projects – Transport — 31
Table: Oman Major Infrastructure Projects –
Utilities — 33 Table: Oman Major Infrastructure Projects
– Construction — 34 Industry Forecast
Scenario — 35 Table Industry and Construction
Data — 35 Business Environment — 37
Business Environment Ratings Table — 40 Regional
Infrastructure Business Environment Ratings — 40 Limits of
Potential Returns — 41 Risk to Realisation of Potential
Returns — 41 Project Finance Ratings: Outlook For Middle
East — 42 Table: Design and Construction
Rating — 43 Table: Commissioning and Operating
Rating — 44 Table: Overall Project Finance
Rating — 45 Foreign Direct
Investment — 47 Labour Force — 48
Legal Framework — 49 Tax Regime — 50
Macroeconomic Outlook — 51 Table: Oman - Economic
Activity — 54 Political Outlook — 55
Company Monitor — 58 Galfar Engineering and
Construction — 58 Oman National Engineering and Investment
Company (SAOG) — 59 Al Sawadi Investment and Tourism
Company/ Blue City Investments — 60 Country Snapshot: Oman
Demographic Data — 61 Section 1:
Population — 61 Table: Demographic Indicators,
2005-2030 — 61 Table: Rural/Urban Breakdown,
2005-2030 — 62 Section 2: Education And
Healthcare — 62 Table: Education,
2002-2005 — 62 Table: Vital Statistics,
2005-2030 — 62 Section 3: Labour Market And Spending
Power — 63 Table: Employment Indicators,
1999-2004 — 63 Table: Consumer Expenditure, 2000-2012
(US$) — 63 Business Environment — 64
Ratings Overview — 64 Table: Infrastructure Business
Environment Indicators — 65 How We Generate Our Industry
Forecasts — 66 Construction
Industry — 67 Sources — 68 Project
Finance Ratings Methodology — 70 Operating Risks –
Commercial Construction — 72 Operating Risks –
Energy and Utilities — 73 Operating Risks
–Transport — 74
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