BOS Webinar – Pathways for Oman to Realise its Hydrogen and Ammonia Ambitions by 2030

Webinar Details

Date: Wednesday, 7 May 2025
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (UK time)
Platform: Zoom.

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This webinar forms part of our series of events showcasing young up and coming Omani talent, their early career experiences and their aspirations to contribute to Oman's Vision 2040. Ammar Al Balushi is currently a research associate at Wood Mackenzie, in the UK. He is also a previous participant of the British Embassy Muscat's scholarship programme.

Webinar Description

In recent years, Oman has led the region in announcing hydrogen and ammonia ambitions with the aim to become a market leader by 2030. However, the global wave of optimism surrounding low carbon hydrogen and ammonia has scaled back as the challenges of scaling a hydrogen economy have become clearer.

Oman’s hydrogen ambitions are now faced with the complex challenge of progressing its announced portfolio to FID amidst global uncertainty. While reaching the FID on all the announced capacity thus far will be challenging, there remains pathways to spur developments to enable the Sultanate to achieve its 2030 goal of producing 1Mtpa of low carbon hydrogen. 

Ammar will speak speak about these pathways, as well as:

• Current hydrogen and ammonia Market summary and forecasts
• An overview of some key Omani initiatives in this area
• Key strengths and enablers of Omani hydrogen and ammonia frameworks
• The key challenges Omani projects face in taking FID

He will also discuss his early career experiences in the UK and Oman, speaking about his career path so far, and his work at Wood Mackenzie as part of the Hydrogen research team.

About the host

In his role as a research associate at Wood Mackenzie, Ammar Al Balushi supports in developing ammonia long-term supply and demand outlooks and price forecasts. Ammar has also supported efforts related to hydrogen market quarterly trackers as well as leading workstreams on hydrogen industry themes and deal flow.

Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Ammar was a trainee at the Nama Power and Water Procurement Company in the Sultanate of Oman. During his traineeship, Ammar was involved in the development of various utility scale power and water desalination projects across Oman. 

Ammar has a MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems from the University of Edinburgh and a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University. He is based in Edinburgh and is fluent in both English and Arabic.