He was the first Director General of Hydrocarbons in the Ministry of Petroleum & He has 46 years of experience of working in Oil & Gas Sector both in India & in many countries abroad. Natural Gas (MOPNG) for 11 years at the level of Special Secretary to Government of India .He worked with all the important Oil Sector Agencies in India like ONGC , OIL , OIDB , OCC ,Energy Division of Planning Commission and with Foreign Oil Companies abroad. He was on the Boards of different National Oil Companies for more than 11 years between 1992 to 2003 viz , Oil India Limited , ONGC-VIDESH Ltd , Lubrizol India Ltd . , Engineers India Ltd ( EIL) & Oil Industry Development Board ( OIDB ) . He was also on the Boards of Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC ) & Gas Authority of India (GAIL ) as a Special Invitee. His Geological work established for the Ist time Rajasthan as a commercial oil & gas producing Region in 1990 . He was the first person to map all the Deep & Ultra Deep Water areas of the country . Based on his work all Deep Water Blocks in India were awarded between 1999 - 2004. He created a unique record by 2003 as 70 blocks were awarded through Ministry of Petroleum in 4 years ( i.e. 73% of the then acreage of India ) . With this India can double its Oil Production and increase Gas production 4-6 times , in due course. For example, drilling along East Coast , confirmed his Interpretation and led to several , world class discoveries with resources of almost 100 TCF Gas + Crude oil (production potential of gas being 150-300 MMSCMD) This made India as the 5th such Deep Water Producing region in the world . He was the first to introduce the concept of Coalbed Methane in India , and awarded through Ministry 16 Blocks . Thus , making India again 5th such country in the world .CBM Production Potential of India is about 40-50 MMSCMPD . He started India’s National Gas Hydrate Program NGHP & was its first Technical Coordinator. The Govt. of India retained him as “ Chief Consultant “ in Oil Industry Development Board after his retirement . Currently , he is on the Boards of OIDB & EIL , the two Govt. Organisations and also on the Board of a Foreign Oil & Gas Company . He runs his own company as CMD of Petrobiz Private Ltd and is advising on Oil & Gas Blocks in 6 countries besides India .Between 1991 to 2003 he arranged Road Shows on Indian Petroleum Sector on behalf of Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas in 8-9 countries , each year .

management and upstream oil & gas industry regulation. Responsibilities as Director General include ensuring sound management of country’s hydrocarbon resources and to oversee all the upstream petroleum sector’s operations both under PSC and nomination regimes, advising Ministry on relevant technical aspects and representing Government in the Management Committees of E&P contracts, upgrading geo-scientific knowledge base of country’s poorly/unexplored areas and enabling these areas for initiating systematic exploration, Implementation of NELP and CBM policy, exploring other non conventional hydrocarbon energy resources of the country such as Gas Hydrates, oil shales etc.

Being the Director General, he is playing an important role by heading all oil and gas and CBM exploration, development and production related functions at country level. He is leading a team of dedicated Geoscientist and Engineers for evaluation of Oil & Gas Field Development Plans and suggesting strategies for making it more techno-economically feasible, Monitoring of field operations of the approved development plans, Redevelopment & Production Monitoring of major oil producing fields including Mumbai High, Neelam, Heera, D-6 and Rajasthan, Reservoir and Operational Review of pre-NELP Fields and a host of small oil and gas fields.

Prior to joining DGH, Mr. Srivastava has worked for over 30 years with Oil India Limited (OIL) a leading upstream Public Sector Undertaking (PSU). During his more than 3 decades experience in OIL in on land and offshore fields in India and abroad, Mr. Srivastava had occupied several leadership positions, both in India and overseas in various capacities. He was the Chief Adviser (Exploration & Development) and Country Manager of OIL’s Libya operations. He has been actively guided OIL in the national and international bidding in several countries in Africa, Middle East, South East Asia and North American Continents. He was also Head of Exploration for OIL in North East India. He was responsible for several oil and gas discoveries and credited with setting up Oil India’s state-of-the-art G&G Interpretation Centre and Libya Project where the Company has exploration acreages.

As Director (Operations), Oil India Ltd. he was responsible for planning, management and control of all hydrocarbon related exploration, cross country pipeline transportation (feeding five refineries), development and production operations of the company in the North East India and production operations of various regions within the country and its foreign operations.

managing the roles and responsibilities of a complete vertical hierarchy comprising of over one third of total workforce of company.He is also on the board of ONGC Videsh Ltd (overseas arm of ONGC), subsidiary company Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL) & Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd. (biggest helicopter operator in India). The turnover of ONGC Group of Companies is US$ 23 Billion. He is also managing the horizontal interactions and interventions with other Directorate and Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India. He has 33 years of varied experience in Offshore & Onshore oil & gas operations in ONGC, and has grown from grass-root level.

He was awarded “Young Executive of the Year“ by Chairman, ONGC. He coordinated the project for fire-fighting and blow -out control of B-121 platform/ wells and subsequently abandonment of damaged wells/platform and revival of production from alternative location.

Mr. Vasudeva is a Gold Medalist in Chemical Engineering.

Apurba Saha Executive Director - MH Asset ONGC

Dr. James Peters GGM (Exploration) ONGC Videsh limited   DR JAMES PETERS Graduated from University of Roorkee, (now IIT, Roorkee) in 1975, Dr Peters joined the ONGC in 1976. He is a highly experienced Petroleum Geologist and Coalbed Methane Expert who has demonstrated the ability to lead diverse teams of professionals to new

levels of success in a variety of highly competitive scenarios, imbibing cutting-edge technologies. He has strong technical qualifications with an impressive track record of more than 32 years of hands-on experience in petroleum and coal bed methane exploration, exploration project management, strategic planning, organizational development, team building. He is an ardent supporter of Management by Objectives. After independently handling many R&D and Exploration projects, he presently Heads the Exploration of ONGC Videsh Ltd and handles 20 exploration projects in 13 countries. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Al Rashid Petroleum Company, a JV between SPC, OVL and IPRMEL.

Dr Peters is a Member of 6 professional bodies and represents India on the House of Delegates in the AAPG, USA. He has been bestowed a number of awards and is a recipient of the prestigious National Mineral Award.

Dr Rabi Bastia Sr Vice President Head of Exploration Assets in Reliance Industries Ltd   Dr. Rabi Bastia, is a well known exploration and management leader in the Hydrocarbon Industry. He obtained his Masters degree in Petroleum Exploration from Norwegian Technological University, Norway and a Doctoral degree in Geology from IIT, Kharagpur. He has been serving the Indian petroleum industry for about 3 decades in different capacities with distinction.

Dr. Bastia’s contribution in exploring for hydrocarbons in the deep water regions of India is commendable. He has provided a high level of leadership in directing and implementing several major exploration programmes in the deepwater regions of the east coast of India which have resulted in major hydrocarbon discoveries. The gas discovery in the Krishna-Godavari basin is the world’s largest find of the year 2002. The discovery in the Mahanadi offshore is another tribute to his foresight, particularly due to the fact that this discovery was preceded by a long spell of unsuccessful exploration by previous operators. Dr. Bastia’s approach in development of new concepts coupled with several technological innovations has added a new dimension to the Indian Hydrocarbon scenario and earned India a place of pride in the deep water map of the world.

In recognition to this outstanding contribution in the field of Science and Engineering the Government of India has conferred him the “Padma Shree”, one of India’s highest civilan awards in the year 2007.In the same year, he has also been awarded The “ Bharat Gaurav” from the state of Orissa, another landmark achievement and very recently the “Infraline Service to Nation Award in Energy Excellence”. He has also been conferred with “Who’s Who in the World” in the year 2008, in recognition to his outstanding professional excellence in the field of petroleum.

Besides his industry assignments, he is also actively pursuing some research projects in the field of oil exploration with Stanford University, USA, University of Utah, USA and Norwegian Technological University, Norway. He is currently teaching a course in “Petroleum Exploration” as Adjunct Professor in IIT, Bombay. He has written a book titled “Geologic Settings and Petroleum Systems of India’s East Coast Offshore Basins: Concepts and Applications”.

Mr U C Grover Director, Technical & Offshore Services Shipping Corporation of India   Topic : Logistic support -- a challenge, bridging the gap   Shri Umesh C. Grover started his sea career after graduating from DMET, Kolkata in November 1971 with The Shipping Corporation of India as a Shipboard Engineer. After sea-career of 14 years, he joined the

shore services of SCI in March 1987. In 1991, he was deputed to Irano Hind Shipping as Director Technical & returned in 1994.

From 1994 to 1997, he handled Technical Operations of Bulk carriers & Dry cargo fleet. In 1997 he was given a commercial assignment in Container Services & Marketing Dept. and as GM (Container Services & Marketing) he was in charge of network of global container services operated by the SCI.

Shri Grover was appointed as the Director, Technical & Offshore Services Division by the Govt. of India on 01.04.2006. He and his team is responsible for planning and implementing the SCI’s ship acquisition programme involving new & second acquisitions, shipbuilding, ship disposal. He is also in charge of all Offshore activities of SCI and providing technical consultancy to various Government and Scientific & Research bodies. Also in charge of Information Technology Dept. and responsible for implementation of information technology in SCI.

He has vast experience of ship management (both technical & commercial), marketing, liner conferences/bilateral matters, maritime training & implementation of ISM Code.

Dr V K Rao OSD / Advisor Reliance Natural Resourses Limited.   Dr. V. K. Rao has more than four decades of professional experience in all facets of upstream Oil & Gas sector. He has served at Oil & Natural Gas Corporation, Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, Gas Authority of India Limited, Reliance Energy Limited Previously & currently is Advisor (E&P /Gas Business), Reliance Natural Resources Limited.

He has been Head of New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) & CBM Rounds in Directorate General of Hydrocarbons under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, covering five rounds of NELP & CBM rounds.

Dr Rao has proven capability in building Startup Organisational structure for E & P Domain and leading then to successful business ventures.

Dr. Rao has been on several overseas assignments for Oil field Development, Data evaluation, Project Assignments & as a Team Member of High Level Delegation for Road Show Presentations. He has been the key note Speaker in many Seminars/Conferences.

Dr. Rao is a Board Member of American Biographical Institute, Raleigh, USA; Board Member, Research Council, Andhra University; Listed Biography in “Reference Asia Book” and in “Indo-France Directory of Scholars”

He has authored more than 20 technical Publications in various national & international Journals. Recently,Dr Rao has authored a Reference Book on “Oil & Gas Exploration and Production in India:2009” which has evoked keen response from the Industry.

Capt Sandeep Kalia Head, Personnel Department Great Offshore Limited   Capt. Sandeep Kalia started his career with Univan Ship Mgt as Deck cadet in 1989 and sailed with them on various types of vessels until 2004.   After a successful sea going career of 14.5 years with Univan, he joined their Safety and Quality Department in

Mumbai. During the tenure in QHSE department he carried out various Ship Audits, Accident & Incident Investigations.

In January of 2005 he joined the Training department of Anglo Eastern Maritime Training Centre, Mumbai, as In-Charge of the state of the art Navigation Ship Handling Simulator and conducted various Navigational, Maritime Resource Mgt, Safety and security related courses.

In January' 2007 he joined the Marine Logistic Department (FPS) of Great Offshore Limited", one of the largest Indian Offshore services providers, and was appointed as "Head of Fleet Personnel Department" in 2008. He is actively involved in recruitment of competent seafarers for Offshore Supply Vessels and overseeing their Training needs and requirements. One of his key competencies lies in identifying the Human & Behavioural aspects of seafarers and developing training programs to address their needs. Capt. Kalia is also assisting the STW sub-committee & The Directorate General of Shipping, India, in formalizing the OSV & DP related competencies.

He is a member of Company of Master Mariners of India (CMMI) & OSPA and has presented paper on "Offshore Resource Management" at International Business Conferences and Nautical papers in CMMI seminars.

Venkatraman Sheshashayee, Executive Director, Greatship Global Energy Services Pte. Ltd. and Greatship Global Offshore Services Pte. Ltd.   Academic Qualifications - Bachelor of Engineering (Marine), 1982 and Master in Business Administration, 1988.   He has worked in shipping, project finance, operations, marketing, sales, human resources and general

management. Shesh started his career as a Marine Engineer, and worked with Great Eastern Shipping, Mumbai and A P Moller, Singapore. After that he has performed diverse management roles in The Shipping Credit & Investment Company of India (SCICI), Akzo Nobel Coatings India Limited and The Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited, prior to starting up the Greatship Group in 2006.

Awards – National Talent Scholar, 1978. Won three consecutive Gold Medals for Academic Excellence in 1980, 1981 and 1982 and the prestigious Naval Architecture Gold Medal in 1982.Won Award for All Round Excellence in 1988.

The Greatship Group is involved in drilling services, offshore logistics and offshore construction support, and has offices in Mumbai and Singapore. The Group has 16 assets in operation (Mexico, Africa, Middle East, North Sea, SEA and India) and 12 assets under construction.

Ms. Vaneeta Patnaik, Assistant Professor of Law, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. (Currently on a sabbatical)   Ms. Patnaik is currently pursuing her Doctoral Research at the International Max Planck Research Institute for Private and Comparative Law, Hamburg, Germany. She has been awarded the Doctoral scholarship to read for

the PhD degree under the aegis of the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Prior to commencing her Doctoral studies, Ms. Patnaik was teaching at the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata, India. Ms. Patnaik holds an MLB from the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg. She was awarded the Bucerius Scholarship to read for the MLB degree at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg. She has an LLB and LLM (with rank and distinction) from Berhampur University, India.Apart from being a full time faculty at NUJS, Ms. Patnaik has also been a visiting faculty at University Law College, Utkal University and at the Centre for Women and Law at Utkal University, India. She has also lectured at the University of Hamburg. Ms. Patnaik has more than seven years of teaching and research experience in the field of international economic laws – specifically Insolvency, Insurance, Banking and Maritime law.

Research

Broadly, Ms. Patnaik’s research area is international economic law with focus on international insolvency and insurance law. For her PhD, Ms. Patnaik is researching on the issues of liability for Offshore Construction Projects. Through her research she is also proposing for a single all liabilities cover. This study is being conducted under the supervision of Dr Ulrich Magnus., Director of the Seminar of Foreign and Private International Law of the Faculty of Law at the University of Hamburg, Judge at the Hanseatic Court of Appeal, and Director at the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs

Mike Weatherwax Technical Director Mustang Engineering India Pvt Ltd.   Mike Weatherwax is currently serving in the capacity of Technical Director for Mustang Engineering India Pvt Ltd. He joined Mustang in 2001 as a Mechanical Engineer and has held numerous positions on an array of offshore projects and deepwater developments. He has worked a

year in Aberdeen, Scotland, with Mustang’s parent company Wood Group, as a project engineer on various brown field modifications, including an FPSO brown field project located in the North Sea.

Mike holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

Anuj Gupta Associate Director   ANUJ GUPTA is an Associate Director in the Corporate Tax and Regulatory practice at BMR Advisors. Prior to BMR he has worked in Ernst & Young. Anuj has been actively involved in advising clients on tax & regulatory aspects in the oil and gas and infrastructure sector. He has worked extensively with domestic and

international energy clients on various projects in India including contract reviews, investment structuring, reorganisation and ongoing tax compliance and regulatory issues.

Having served various Indian and multinational clients on a range of fiscal and regulatory matters, he specializes in advising clients on issues pertaining to income tax, exchange control, corporate laws, cross border structuring, entry strategies, and other regulatory aspects.

Anuj is a Chartered Accountant and a CFA Charterholder.

Mr. N K Mitra Reliance Industries Limited – E&P   Mr. N.K. Mitra is a graduate in petroleum engineering from Indian School of Mines and is a well known oil & gas professional from India. Worked with ONGC close to thirty six years and serving various technical, leadership and management positions, he has been credited with number of National and International awards and accreditation. He was a

Board member of 7 nos. of companies. His visionary leadership has been instrumental in giving many a new directions for Offshore oil & gas businesses in India. His views and perceptions are widely acknowledged in industry circle

Mr. Mitra has served as the Chairman of the SPE – India chapter for 5 years and received SPE award for outstanding service and distinguish service petroleum industry. He had written a book on ‘Floating Production Systems’. He had received Best alumni award for excellent contribution to Indian Oil Industry from ISM in 2009. He had chaired, keynote speaker and season chairman of 25 nos. of such National and International Conference. He had written 55 technical papers in National and International journals. In 2007 had received ‘Best Oil Man of the Year’ from IORS.

Mr. Mitra is amongst the few front-runners in the area of interactive knowledge, technologies, sharing and mentoring. In various International and National Conferences which he had chaired and had put forward a number of new perspectives and paradigms for the oil & gas industries through his articles, keynote addresses and presentations.

Mads Hjelmeland Area Sales Manager Framo Engineering Asia Pacific   Mads Hjelmeland holds a MSc in Marine Technology & Fluid Dynamics with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and currently holds the position as Area Sales Manager for Pumps and Subsea Systems with Framo Engineering Asia Pacific. Mads has been with Framo Engineering for the last seven years, and initially started out working in the technical department where he

worked with design of multiphase pump- and wet gas compression systems. Prior to his posting in Malaysia in 2009 he was working as Multiphase Domain Product Champion out of the Schlumberger Regional Technology Centre in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.

Nitin M. Kulkarni holds a Bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation Engineering from University of Poona and he is currently pursuing Masters Degree in Drilling and Well Engineering from the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen Scotland. He has been involved in providing workshop and training modules of CPD to Operating Companies, Drilling Contractors and Universities with the goal of helping clients optimize the economic value of their reservoirs with one of the industry’s latest offerings of expertise, solutions and ultimately services to achieve the desired results. Nitin M. Kulkarni is a professional member of SPE.

pressure compressors.
In his roles as product manager he held worldwide responsibility for the marketing of large portable compressors. He has managed an impressive portfolio of projects successfully including large compressors for use in drilling and related high volume/high pressure compressed air applications (Drillair) as well as oil free air portables. He strongly assisted customer centers world wide in key account development, mainly in oil & gas, drilling and pipelines.
Gathuru holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and has a broad experience in project management as well as marketing & sales.

Prior to this Mr. Poulsen has worked as Geological Reservoir Modeling consultant with several international oil companies, Managed Product Development of Irap RMS and been the Vice President of Sales & Services.

Kapil Kumar Thakur Flow Assurance Senior Consultant Multiphase Pipeline & Well Studies Spt Group, Uae   WAG conversion cycle procedure using OLGA-Rocx (nearwellbore reservoir modeling tool) integration; Maersk Oil, Senior Consultant (Ongoing)

Thermal Analysis for Bhagyam Heater Cable application, Cairn Energy India, Project Manager Hydraulic Study for 30”/40” Pipeline from BS131 to MAA, Petrofac (KOC), Senior consultant (Ongoing)

Well modeling for long departure ERD/MRC well to access slugging potential, evaluate mitigation and cleanup simulation for different completion design, ZADCO, Consultant

Assisted in modeling of Falah Gas lift system to study the impact on total oil production by different lift gas composition and to access the likely hood of condensate formation at the GLV location, Dubai Petroleum, Consultant

OLGA modeling for surge pressure prediction for different scenarios such as complete blackout, downstream pump trip etc and evaluation of various mitigations, Mott Macdonald (Oman), Consultant OLGA modeling of Sealines for the South Pars 6,7 & 8 Offline Pipeline Management System (OPMS), Consultant Slugging Analysis for the Manifa Crude causeway pipeline system, Saudi Aramco, Consultant - Slugging Analysis of Safaniya Trunkline-10, Saudi Aramco, Consultant. Wax and Hydrate prediction for pipeline network, Arvandan Co., Iran, Consultant Transient flow analysis for Dolphin project Pipelines (Qatar), Consultant Transient Simulation Study for complete pipeline system, SCECKA, Saudi Arabia, Consultant- Pigging analysis for 20” transfer line from RDS3 to CDS, ADCO, Abu Dhabi, Consultant General Technical Support Technical presentations for pre-sales OLGA Training

Petroleum Engineer, Reliance Industries Ltd. - Flow assurance analysis for the KGD6 Deepwater Development (Subsea to beach tie-back). Detailed network modeling using OLGA-5 for KGD-6 field at Houston, Texas (USA) Process modeling using HYSYS for the KGD6 field. Application of ReO software (steady state network modeling) Application of PIPEPHASE, INPLANT & FLARENET for onshore processing and flare network design. Modeling of MEG injection network Flare radiation calculation using FLARESIM QUE$TOR and DEEPE$T implementation for cost analysis Field process engineering

U N Bose Director(Technology & Field Services) ONGC   In addition to the responsibility of Director (Technology & Field Services), ONGC, Mr Bose is also on board of “Engineers India Limited” (EIL) and Chairman of “International Association of Drilling Contractors”(IADC), South Central Asia Chapter

Spearheading Drilling services (Drilling, Cementing and Mud), Well services (Work-over, Well completion & testing and WSS) and Technical services which are core services of ONGC

Institute of Drilling Technology (IDT), a premier institute under Mr Bose is providing technical expertise to Drilling services with the ultimate objective to promote E&P activities of the company. Earlier Mr Bose was instrumental in setting up internationally recognized Well Control Training Facility at IDT. The facility has accreditation from IADC, USA, IAWC, USA and IWCF, UK.

Has been a key person for implementation of directional drilling technology in Mumbai Offshore area during early eighties. In mid eighties he pioneered the development of in-house expertise in Horizontal Drilling to cater to the organizational needs. As a result of early initiatives by Mr Bose, today ONGC has high level of expertise in drilling of Horizontal and other Hi-Tech wells.

As Chief-Drilling Services, Mr Bose was instrumental in Deep Water Drilling Campaign in deep and ultra deep waters for exploration in East and West coasts. As Director (T&FS), plans for rolling out new technologies in offshore and onshore areas have been drawn to leverage corporate goals achievement Initiated use of composite material for the revamping and platform modification projects in Mumbai Offshore particularly for the secondary structures.

ONGC is an Associate Member of the Technology Development and Production Sub-Groups of National Gas Hydrate Program NGHP. Mr Bose, as Director incharge of Institute of Engineering & Ocean Technology (IEOT), actively supported ONGC’s participation in NGHP to establish presence of Gas Hydrates in Indian waters.

Taken lead for refurbishment and up-gradation of Onland Drilling rigs, Workover rigs & Cementing units. Induction of new advanced equipment as well as up-gradation of existing resources with state-of-the-art equipment to remain competitive in the global E&P business is one of his core focus areas.

Mr Bose has also contributed many technical papers on Drilling technologies in different conferences and technical publications.

Krishnamurthy.M.M Projectmanager, M/s Igus India Pvt.Ltd.

Kevin Hansen Process & Facilities Manager Xodus Group Pty Ltd in Perth, Western Australia.   Kevin has over 24 years experience in the oil and gas industry. He has worked and lived in Western Canada, Eastern Canada, the Middle East and Australia. He is currently the Process & Facilities Manager for Xodus Group

Pty Ltd in Perth, Western Australia.

Kevin has a broad base of experience that includes production and reservoir engineering, process design, operations support, flow assurance as well as offshore field development & conceptual design. Recent experience includes being involved with various conceptual studies for large gas-condensate developments feeding LNG facilities in the Austral-Asia area.

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Kjell Garvik, VP, Sales & Marketing, Asia Pacific, Aker Solutions, Malaysia Sdn Bhd   Kjell Garvik has been with Aker Solutions for the last 12 years where he has working in Hoiston, Oslo, Nigeria and for the last 3.5 years in Malaysia as VP for Sales & Marketing Asia Pacific. Garvik is Petroleum Engineer for Stavanger University. He has in his career been working with different service contractors in the oil and gas industry, Such as Sperry Sun, Alcatel Cable, Coflexip.

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J G Chaturvedi Executive Director Chief New & Marginal Field Development ONGC   Professional Qualification: . Masters Degree in Geology from Rajasthan University . PG Diploma in “Photo Geology & Remote Sensing” from Indian Institute of Remote Sensing . PG Diploma in “International Management” from international Management Institute, New Delhi

Experience & Organization:
. Joined ONGC in 1976 as Field Geologist and served in various capacities at different Locations
. Held key positions like Basin Manager, CBM – BPM Basin, Chief- HRD, Asset Manager, Assam Asset
. Currently holding the charge of Chief – New Marginal Field Development, Mumbai and responsible for monetization of discovered assets
. Experience in extensive exploration for Geological Mapping in North Eastern States, application of Remote Sensing Technique for Hydrocarbon Exploration, Supervision and Monitoring of Well site Operations, guiding exploration through Integrated Geo-Scientific Data for Cambay Basin and Steering Exploration in CBM Block / Mahanadi Basin. Professionally managed the brown fields of Assam Asset. Also contributed immensely in the development of Human resource capital in ONGC

Accomplishments:
. Convener of Petrotech-2003 and Member of the Steering Committee, Petrotech 2005 and Petrotech – 2007
. Organizing committee member of SPG, SPE and Geo-India . Responsible for successfully launch of ONGC IPO as Convener of Disinvestment Core Team
. Lead the ONGC team of Geoscientists for Joint Indo-U.K. Himalayan Basin Work Association with British Petroleum at Britannic House, London
. Participated in various National & International conferences including WPC

Honors:
. Life Member of Indian Society of Remote Sensing
. Life Member of Geological Society of India
. Life Member of National Institute of Personnel Management

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Rajeev Kumar Sinha, Advisor (Production), Directorate General of Hydrocarbons   Mr. Rajeev Kumar Sinha did his engineering in chemical discipline from Regional Engineering College, Rourkela in 1990. After working for one year in HPCL refinery Mumbai, he joined Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in 1991. He worked for 12 years in offshore in different projects in Mumbai High and Bassein offshore gas fields. Apart from the routine production and field project activities in offshore, he was involved in various safety certifications of offshore installations and implementation of ISRS safety systems.

Mr. Sinha joined Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) in the year 2003 and since then involved in various decision making process for oil and gas policy formulation. He has been actively involved in NELP promotional road shows at Houston, London and Calgary, Singapore during NELP VI and NELP VII bidding rounds and strategy meets with US department of Energy in Washington. He has been a part of the team from DGH for making XIth plan document for oil and gas sector, New Extension Policy for PSC regime, Gas Pricing determination, Marginal Field Development Policy, Monitoring of D-6 oil and gas field development, Development of Rajasthan oil field of Cairn India etc. He is a member of the team from DGH for review of the projects funded by OIDB.

Mr. Sinha is also associated with the National Gas Hydrate Programme in which he had represented India as a member of science team during Gas Hydrate Expedition for hydrate core collection and MDT test at North Slope, Alaska (USA).