Turkish firm plays patient game in Oman dispute

An Ankara-based engineering, procurement and construction contractor, which in 2013 filed a dispute against Oman under a bilateral investment treaty and is seeking some $182m in damages, has said it will wait another few weeks to hear from Muscat before moving the case to an international arbitration court in Europe. The March 2013 dispute, Attila Dogan Construction and Installation Co v The Sultanate of Oman, centres on the poor treatment Attila Dogan says it received after winning a $743.5m contract in October 2010 from Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) for work relating to PDO’s Block 6. “We have had no overtures from Oman since August 2013,” Akin Alcitepe, from Attila Dogan’s law firm, the Washington DC-based Bailey Law Group PC, told GSN. “They don’t seem keen to talk. It would be sensible if Oman would settle and clear it up.”