Oman
Head office in Muscat, operated fields and processing in Al Wusta, terminal at Ras Sahil and the Sahil complex at Duqm.
About Us
An operator first, and everything else second.
Falaj Energy plans, builds and runs energy facilities across the Gulf, Iraq and the Caspian. We present that work here — we do not sell anything through this site.
Who we are
Falaj was founded in Muscat in 2004 by a group of engineers who had spent the previous decade commissioning other people's plants and watching design decisions made by people who would never have to operate the result. The company was set up on the opposite principle: take the operatorship, and let that shape the engineering.
Twenty-two years on, we operate nineteen facilities across Oman, Iraq and Kazakhstan, and hold technical or delivery roles on projects in three more countries. The portfolio runs from wellhead to polymer — field developments, gas processing, pipelines and terminals, refining revamps and, since 2021, a group-wide emissions programme held to the same reporting discipline as production.
We employ around 3,800 people. Roughly four in five are nationals of the country they work in, and the two engineering centres — Muscat and Aberdeen — carry the subsurface and process disciplines in-house rather than contracting them in. That is a deliberate cost: it is also why we can take operatorship of a plant we designed and staff it on day one.
What we hold ourselves to
- 01
Safety before schedule
No production target justifies an unsafe act. Work stops when a hazard is identified and stays stopped until it is closed — and the person who stopped it is not asked to justify the delay.
- 02
Operate what we build
Designing a facility we will run ourselves changes the decisions we make in engineering. Maintainability outranks first cost, because we are the ones maintaining it in fifteen years.
- 03
Measure before you claim
Our flaring programme began by metering every flare tip before a single mitigation project was approved. Estimated numbers make comfortable reports and bad decisions.
- 04
Build local capability
Long-term operations depend on local engineers, technicians and suppliers. We hire and train where we work, and every graduate entrant spends a rotation on an operating site.
Where we operate
Iraq
Refining and brownfield engineering in Basra governorate, with a standing project office and a local engineering workforce.
Kazakhstan
Deep sour gas appraisal on the North Caspian basin margin.
United Arab Emirates
Procurement, logistics and shared engineering services in Abu Dhabi.
Qatar
Technical services to two operated gas processing facilities.
United Kingdom
Subsurface and process engineering centre in Aberdeen.
Looking for the numbers rather than the narrative?
Company overview, reserves, production and the last five years of audited statements sit in the investors section.