Oman and the United States have kept a facilities-access agreement since 1980, renewed periodically and extended in 2019 to the ports of Duqm and Salalah. Vigil records it as access to published outlets outside the Strait of Hormuz, which is what sets it apart from the three Gulf hosting arrangements.
The United States in the Gulf maintains a presence hosted by Oman. A directional arrangement: the two parties do not hold the same position in it. Authored once and read from both ends.
L’arrangement
- Statut
- ActiveEn vigueur et opérationnelle. Ne dit rien de la manière dont elle fonctionne, ni de la direction qu’elle prend.Dernier changement significatif : 2019-03.
- Ce qu’il couvre
- DéfenseStationnementCatégories que l’arrangement est documenté comme incluant. Ce n’est pas une mesure : une relation qui en couvre davantage est décrite plus en détail, non tenue plus fermement.
Synthèse
The 1980 facilities-access agreement gave United States forces the use of Omani airfields and ports on request, and has been renewed since; in March 2019 the two governments signed a framework agreement on the use of the ports at Duqm and Salalah, both on the Arabian Sea and both outside the strait. Oman has never hosted a permanent United States command on the Bahraini or Qatari model, and it pairs the arrangement with the region's most durable channel to Tehran. Both ports were struck in the first week of March 2026, and resolution 2817 names Oman among the states attacked. The record states the arrangement's existence, its published scope and its dates, and nothing about use, tempo or what is present.
Pourquoi c’est important
If the strait stays commercially shut, the outlets that matter are the ones outside it, and Oman's are the only Gulf Arab terminals in that position. The arrangement is the reason Duqm appears in both the Atlas's naval records and the module's logistics thinking, and it is the other half of Oman's position: engagement with Iran and access for the United States, held at once.
Accords
- United States–Oman facilities access agreement · signé le 1980-06
Renewed at intervals since; the current text is not public.
- Framework agreement on the ports of Duqm and Salalah · signé le 2019-03
Publicly announced by both governments as covering access to the two ports; operative terms not authored.
Événements associés
- La guerre du Golfe et la posture américaine en matière de bases qui a suivi 1990 – 1991
Militaire · Politique
Organisations
Structures par lesquelles cette relation s’exerce. Elles n’y sont pas parties — les parties sont les deux acteurs ci-dessus.
Lieux
Repères que ce module publie déjà. Cette fiche n’ajoute aucune précision géographique qui lui soit propre.
Ce qui reste inconnu
- The scope of access under the 2019 framework is described by both governments in general terms only.
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Évalué au — 2026-09 Dernière revue — 2026-09-14