Masirah New power plant is a 57.6 MW oil power plant in Masirah, Oman. It is operated by Nama Holding SAOC [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 43k homes (estimated). It ranks #31 of 32 Oman power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 3.6% of Oman's electricity; the national grid averages 544 gCO₂/kWh (4.5% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_masirahnew_oman.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408235; fuel: GEM GOGPT
Technically it is described as Engine. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Nama Holding SAOC [100%].
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 20.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #2 largest oil power plant of 2 in Oman by capacity.
Oman has 2 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 142 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 20.467862, 58.801624 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Masirah New power plant is a 57.6 MW oil power plant in Masirah, Oman.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 43,249 homes (estimated).
Masirah New power plant is operated by Nama Holding SAOC [100%].
