Chemineral — Petrochemicals from Oman
Chemineral
Dawn over an Omani industrial port
About Chemineral

Fifteen years moving the world's essential materials.

Chemineral was founded in 2010 in Sohar, Oman — a port city that sits outside the Strait of Hormuz, outside the Red Sea, and at the gateway to the world's fastest-growing petrochemical markets. We trade the materials modern economies can't live without: bitumen for the roads, urea for the crops, polymers for the packaging, chemicals for the plants.

Our discipline is specific and narrow. We don't broker everything. We trade twelve products, exceptionally well, to buyers who value certainty over price. Seventy-eight percent of our revenue comes from repeat customers — some have been with us for twelve years.

Sohar port at dusk: storage tanks, a tanker at the jetty and mountains behind
Sohar · Sultanate of Oman
Our home port
What we actually do

We turn petrochemical complexity into certainty.

We publish real prices

Indexed daily against Argus, ICIS, S&P Platts, ChemAnalyst. Our markup is consistent and visible in every offer.

We inspect every cargo

SGS or Intertek pre-shipment on every lot. Draft sampling, not composite. Retained samples held 12 months.

We hold our laycans

Even when the Red Sea closes. We route around it, price both options side-by-side, and deliver on the promised window.

We answer the phone

One dedicated trade lead from first RFQ to final documentation. Discrepancies resolved in days.

Sixteen years in six milestones

The journey from regional bitumen trader to 40-country supplier.

2010
Founded in Sohar

Began as a regional bitumen trader servicing GCC paving contractors.

2014
Urea expansion

Signed first multi-year offtake with Oman's fertilizer sector. Expanded into South Asian markets.

2017
Polymer desk launched

Added HDPE, LDPE, and PP grades. Opened logistics office in Jebel Ali.

2020
100,000 MT monthly

Crossed 100KT monthly throughput. Appointed dedicated SGS inspection partnerships.

2023
Red Sea response

Built Cape-routing capability within 72 hours of first Bab el-Mandeb disruption.

2026
40+ countries served

Serving customers across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas with 250KT monthly capacity.

Storage tanks at dusk
Sohar · Sultanate of Oman

Built around the ports that move the Gulf.

Rugged Omani coastline at golden hour with a traditional dhow at anchor
The Oman advantage

Three ports, three oceans, zero chokepoints.

Sohar loads for all points north and east with world-class bitumen, polymer, and liquid chemical infrastructure. Outside the Strait of Hormuz — which matters more today than it has in decades.

Salalah sits on the Indian Ocean, a natural gateway for South Asian, East African, and Suez-routed European cargoes. No Hormuz transit required.

Duqm brings new refinery, base oil, and petrochemical capacity online through 2026–2027 — expanding our loading flexibility further.

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