Salalah Methanol Plant is a standalone plant designed to produce methanol of Federal AA & IMPCA grade. The plant’s key features includes sea water intake, captive power generation, captive water desalination, auxiliary steam generation, nitrogen generation, product handling through a product loading facility at Port of Salalah and other utilities, including effluent & sewage treatment facilities. The feed stock is natural gas, supplied by the Ministry of Oil and Gas through Oman Gas Company. The offtake of SMC’s production is managed by Oman Trading International Ltd (OTI) who handles the marketing of the product globally. OTI has a long term time charter contract for two methanol carriers (Matrah and AlAmerat) with Oman Shipping Company S.A.O.C. The product is exported from the Salalah Port facilities which are in the immediate vicinity of the plant.
The SMC plant is located approximately 15 km southwest of the city of Salalah, southwest of the Sultanate of Oman.