Moon Iron & Steel Company Sohar is a scrap-based steel plant: an electric arc furnace melts recycled steel scrap into new crude steel. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of about 1.2 million tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, rebar.
Process Route
EAF
Timeline
Operating since 2020
Emissions
2025
0.3 Mt CO₂e
0.36 t CO₂e per tonne of steel
Typical EAF route: 0.5–0.7 t/t
Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology
Capacity (ttpa)
Crude Steel
1,200
EAF
1,200
Steel Units
EAF
unknown EAF (1)mothballed
Steel Products
billet, rebar
Ownership
Owner Moon Iron and Steel Company SAOC
Parent Gulf Investment Corp; Oman Development Fund Company SAOC; Sultan Special Force Pension Fund
State ownership Partial
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Location
Sohar
Middle East
Oman
24.4094°, 56.5201°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,200 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 2020
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled