Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 2 mos · Planet Earth

Mar 2008 – May 2016 · 8 yrs 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Advised Government of India on energy sector policy formulations investment decisions for projects and enterprise development from E&P to natural gas, LNG, refining & marketing, power, nuclear, renewable energy, fertilizer, petrochemicals, transport, shipping, Inland waterways, Bilaterial & Multilateral Foreign Policies, social infrastructure & inclusive economy. Member of bilateral & multilateral dialogues with major OECD nations. Key Expertise and contributions are;
• ➢ Contribution to National Policy Development
• Energy, Economy & Climate Change
• Exploration & production of oil and gas & project development
• Global LNG resource capacity development & pricing
• Oil, LNG & Energy & commodity prices
• Energy & industry integration policies.
• Climate Change & Low Carbon Growth policies
• Auto fuels vision & policy, 2025 for implementation of BS-VI auto fuel.
• Policy for Creation of National Clean Energy Funds for India
• Developing Solar Mission for India in 2009
• Developing 5 million tons oil Strategic Storages at Visakh, Mangalore & Padur
• Valuation of PSUs for disinvestment for Coal India, ONGC, IOCL & OIL.
• Protecting Interest of Government & citizens while formulating policies
• Evaluated proposals for fast breeder 500 MW nuclear power project
• Nuclear fuel economics & its procurement
• Mechanism for uranium resources exploration from oil well data of ONGC
• Studied exploitation of underground coal & its pricing
• Report on Economics of Import versus domestic production of coal
• Convener Group of Ministers on Sovereign Wealth Funds Chaired by Pranav Mukherjee.
• Member of Committee on implementation of Aadhaar & Direct Benefit Transfer of Subsidies
• Creating National Clean Energy Funds for India
• Member of Govt Committee on Ethanol Pricing Policy for blending with MS.
• Policy on Discovered Small Fields awarded in 2016.
• Policy prescription on Urea import Vs domestic production with imported LNG

Jun 1998 – Mar 2008 · 9 yrs 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Enterprise Creation from Concept to Commercialization.
• Founder member Petronet LNG Limited (PLL) from Cabinet approval, land acquisition, commissioning and commercialisation & making LNG viable & commercial & usable fuel in complex gas market like India.
• Preparing White paper on funding of 5 billion supply chain from Rasgas to PLL
• Presenting solution to fund 5 billion supply chain to Financial Adviser incl. Goldman Sachs
• prospective suppliers for LNG supplies to Petronet LNG Limited.
• Tie up of long term LNG supply chain contract for 25 years with Rasgas Qatar.
• Developed commercial structure of Petronet LNG & funding Dahej project & Rasgas Train II.
• Award of EPC contract for Dahej LNG imports and regasification terminal.
• Charter hiring of LNG Ships for 25 years from Qatar to Dahej LNG port in India.
• Developed process for use of 100% forced boil-off gas utilization for LNG ship propulsion.
• Propulsion system resulted in savings of 10 million US$/year for 2 LNG ships.
• Developing Gas Sales Contract to LNG bulk and retail consumers.
• Developing mechanism for imports of spot and short-term cargoes.
• Mechanism and modalities of Spot Cargo purchases at most competitive price.
• Creating Intellectual capacity building with LNG suppliers
• Speaker at World Gas Conference, Amsredam
• Speaker at LNG-14 Doha
• Speaker World Petroleum Conference, Johannesburg
• Speaker at other major Oil, gas and LNG conferences at Houston, Singapore, KL, Seoul, Beijing, Ivory
• Coast, London, Sydney, Darwin, Paris, Tokyo, Dubai, Doha, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Washington
• DC, Bali. Delhi, Bombay, Chennai, Bangalore, Calcutta, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Gwalior etc.

Jan 1991 – Jun 1998 · 7 yrs 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Policy development for oil & gas exploration, production, refining, marketing and pricing and related industrial sector projects.
• Developed 7th & 8th Five year plan for Energy Sector.
• Developed policies for sectors like power, fertilizer, petro-chemicals, transport, inland waterways sector in India.
• Developing plans for infrastructure building for energy supplies both from imported & domestic sources, proposing port & pipeline infrastructure for imports of petroleum products and LNG and its distribution to all parts of the country.
• Evaluation & appraisals of Petroleum, power, coal, nuclear energy, fertilizer, petrochemicals sector projects for the Public Investment Bureau (PIB) clearance.
• Project appraisals for approval of Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs (CCEA) for investment decisions.
• Prepared Report on “Fuel Policy for Power sector” considering economics of different fuels for power generation”. Planning Commission, 1998.
• Evaluated and apprised India's first Solar & Natural Gas Hybrid project for its viability. !996.
• Evaluated 2000 MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project. 1996.
• Recommended formation of Petronet LNG Limited for import of LNG to India. 1996.
• Policy on Import Versus Make option for Urea in India. 1996.
• Evaluated project on Redevelopment, Voidage Compensation & Improved Recovery of Oil and Gas from Bombay High Oil Field. 1992.
• Evaluated policy on Gas and Gas extracts (C2/C3) based Petrochemical Plants in India for Investment Decisions. October 1995.
• Member Participant-Public Investment Board (Department of Expenditure, Finance Ministry) on evaluation and Appraisal of Energy and Energy Dependent Sectors for investment decisions.
• Evaluated, apprised the Oil and Gas pipeline projects like HBJ Expansion, Kandla-Bhatinda pipeline, Kandla-Loni LPG pipeline.
• Evaluated the viability of 2130 MW Enron Project at Dabhol along-with Sh G.V.Ramakrishna (Founder Chairman SEBI & then Member Planning Commission). 1992.

Jul 1983 – Jan 1991 · 7 yrs 6 mos · Dehradun & silchar

• Hydrocarbon Exploration Geologist at the premier R&D institution of ONGC; the Keshav Dev Malaviya Institute of Petroleum Exploration (KDMIPE). Involved with number of oil & gas Exploration & Production projects.
• Estimated hydrocarbon Resources of Sedimentary basins of India in 1984.
• Deployed Monte Carlo simulation for estimating HC resource potential.
• Developed Corporate Plan of ONGC (1985-2005).
• Well site geologist of High & low pressure exploration wells in Arakan basin.
• Well site geologist for the oldest sub-hydrostatic Oil field Badarpur in the country. Discovered pay zone with self-flow for the first time in Sub-hydrostatic oil field.
• Member of Energy Modelling team for development of Energy Model with Planning Commission, Government of India during 1986-1988.
• Prepared mathematical Correlation model for prospectively of Oil and Gas in different Sedimentary basins of India for Oil and Gas.

Jan 1979 – Jul 1983 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Powai, Bombay

• Research & Academic at IIT Bombay (Research Scholar/SRA - Jan 79 to July 83)
• Teaching B. Tech. & M.Sc. students & pursuing research at IIT Bombay.
• Ph.D. 0n “Textural Studies of Recent Sands”. The technology is applied for hydro-fracturing” of reservoirs to enhance oil & gas recoveries. Technology is also used for shale oil & gas fracking & production of light oil & gas.
• Contribution to Academics & Knowledge Building
• Guided about 40 MBA students, interns from National University of Singapore, Georgia Tech, USA, FMS New Delhi & UPES Dehradun. Mentored students, Interns, Young professionals to get admissions at MIT, Columbia, Yale, Stanford universities.
• Member of General Council of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) an institute of national importance chaired by Secretary (P&NG).
• Member of Academic council of University of Petroleum & Energy studies.
• Conceptualised Corporate Sector participation in higher Education. Committee constituted by Planning Commission under Chairmanship of N.R.Narayan Murthy. Report submitted in April 2012.
• Conducted professional workshops in Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea for CEOs & Senior executives.
• Speaker at conferences in Asia Pacific & Far East, Middle East, Europe, USA, Africa, and Australia.