Fahud in Oman only for oil field workers, everything you want to know about oil field life in Sultate of Oman

Fahud is the first ever place where an oil company in Oman expored for oil. Result, a dry well,...

Many years later, this oil company came back, drilled few meters away from the previous well, and struck oil.

This company, Petroleum Development Oman, is basically owned by Government of Oman, but Shell, and its associates have 40 per cent share in it.

Fahud is now a big town, with an airport, oil installations,  hotels and hundres of camps of contrctors who support the exploration , production and transportation of oil to Muscat, which is some 300 kilometers away.

There is good tarred road, that runs from Muscat to Salalah, and this passes via, Nizwa to Fahud.

There are two huge settlements called PAC   (permanent accommodation , contractors).  These are like hotels, and contractors accommodate their staff in these settlements. These. two PAC are side by side, and in a centre point there is a hug mosque ( masjid).

There are shops that sell provisions, vegetables, fruits,   SIM  (phone thing) and  phone cards, plus, two money exchanges.  One could use ATM  machines, draw money and send  money home to any one all over the world using the services of Money Exchanges. These exchanges give you Western Union Services as well.

There are restaurents, sellers of electronic gadgets, clothes.

Here in Fahud, this is a all men community, and all oil staff are men.  This is a no woman, no women place.

Transport.  There is a flight, and this is used by staff of Petroleum Development Oman  mostly. Staff of contractors workers also use this.  No ticket could be bought, booking is done through company channels only, and contractors as well as PDO (Petroleum Deveopment Oman) are charged through the PDO accounting system.

Every morning there is  a bus that runs to Muscat, that is what, most of the workers use.

You get to eat, good Omani, European and Indian meals in the PAC, suit workers here. After nationals of Oman, it is Indians who constitute most of the oil field workers here.

Mobile phone transmission towers are there, and you can show your passport or labour card and buy phone SIMS.

Phone usinng internet is possible, full time residents, all have this facility to make cheap calls home.