Muscat: The Oman Electricity Transmission Company (OETC) celebrated its 19th anniversary on the first of May each year, in a journey filled with achievements and aspirations and vital strategic plans and projects that align with national visions and global practices in the various relevant fields.

The OETC’s efforts have succeeded in enhancing the electricity sector through the establishment and completion of various projects spread throughout all governorates in Oman, ensuring the electricity network’s sustainability, reliability, safety, and availability. Furthermore, the company responds to continuous growth in all sectors and empowers the national economy in line with the developmental journey pursued by the Sultanate of Oman.

OETC has completed and inaugurated more than 110 Grid Stations, extended 132-kilovolt electricity transmission lines for a distance exceeding 4600 kilometres, 220-kilovolt electricity transmission lines for more than 1800 kilometres, and 400-kilovolt electricity transmission lines reaching over 2800 kilometres.

In addition, it has achieved the highest standards of quality in various operations and reached high levels of reliability and availability of the electricity network, which confirms OETC’s commitment to achieving the highest levels of performance and meeting targets at the institutional and national levels.

Additionally, OETC, in collaboration with other partners, thrives to achieve the Sultanate’s Net Zero goal by 2050, alongside connecting the electricity generation stations with renewable energy resources. The electricity transmission network will also contribute to enabling and connecting various strategic projects, including the green hydrogen projects, which will have a direct and positive impact on supporting the national economy.

The company has achieved an Omanization rate of up to 97%, reflecting the OETC’s confidence in national competencies across various positions requiring high knowledge, experience, and skills. OETC also monitors relevant international systems and policies, ensuring their application and compliance to guarantee the highest health, safety, and environmental standards. This is demonstrated by achieving over 48 million safe manhours since the last lost-time injury (LTI) and “Zero” major environmental incidents, as all OETC’s members strive to achieve environmental sustainability.

Eng. Saleh Nasser Al Rumhi, OETC’s CEO, emphasized the company’s commitment to supporting the developmental journey in the Sultanate, continuing to work efficiently and with high quality to achieve the aspirations and visions according to national plans. Al Rumhi also highlighted the OETC’s commitment to establishing various professional relationships and communicating with experts in the field to transfer knowledge, expertise, and skills and enhance the company’s performance to reach the highest global standards in this field.

Al Rumhi added: “As we celebrate the sector’s day, we recall the starting point and sharpen our ambitions to continue the developmental journey in the country under the wise and visionary leadership of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik – may Allah protect him – with OETC working as one of the leading institutions and major supporters of continuous growth in all sectors. Through every new vital project, we reaffirm our commitment to ensuring and improving the quality, reliability, sustainability, and safety of the electricity transmission network, which extends throughout the Sultanate to supply all sectors with the life’s nerve to continue our developmental journey together for a more prosperous future for Oman”.

It is worth mentioning that OETC, a member of the Nama Group, is the only company responsible for the transmission and control of electricity across the Sultanate’s network. The electricity is transmitted from production stations to distributed load centres in the governorates. The transmission network operates at a voltage of 132kV and above to cover most of the governorates in the Sultanate, whether in the north or the south. Furthermore, OETC manages the interconnection lines between Oman and the GCC interconnection network, which operates at a voltage of 220kV.