Conference on Small Scale LNG-Fuelling the future

Shri S Rath joined as Member, PNGRB on 04th December, 2017. He has over 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, across diverse geographies and functions. An M.Sc in Applied Geology from IIT, Kharagpur (1977) and holder of a Diploma in Management from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), he has also done offshore prospecting course organized by Geological Survey of Japan. Starting out as a geologist, he went on to serve on the Executive Board of Oil India Limited (OIL) as Director (Operations), and was responsible for the Company's drilling, production (crude oil, natural gas and LPG), commercial and also its pipeline business. He was also a Board Member of Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) and Oil India International Limited (OIIL).

Before joining the Board of OIL, Shri Rath was Deputy Director-General, Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) – the upstream regulatory arm of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas looking after exploration and development. At the time of appointment to the PNGRB Board, he was serving as Director (Exploration and Production) at the Federation of Indian Petroleum Industry (FIPI) – earlier known as PetroFed – a position he had held since superannuating from OIL in 2015.

In addition to his expertise in the full hydrocarbon business spectrum, Shri Rath also has experience in organization-level strategic change management. At OIL, he led the initiative for the same as Chief Coordinator. He has also written a book titled 'Breaking Barriers' and published by The Book Line, chronicling the journey of change and the learnings gathered from the process. An avid reader, he is well-travelled and firmly believes in keeping an open and positive mindset while working for the greater good.

Mr. Rajeev Mathur is an Engineer by profession, having a Master's Degree in Business Administration with specialization in Marketing Management and has put in three decades of rich experience in the Natural Gas & Petrochemical industry.

Mr. Mathur is the Chairman of the Energy Committee of the PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry (PHDCCI) and a member of the Hydrocarbon Committee of The Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry. He is also on the Governing Council of the Natural Gas Society.

Mr. Mathur started his career stint with GAIL and In his over 30 years in gas industry, he has steered many initiatives under different profiles of Marketing and Business Development areas. His assignments included Natural Gas Trading, Gas Transmission and marketing & other allied products within India & abroad.

He was also the Managing Director of Mahanagar Gas Ltd., a leading CGD company from Sept 2014 to May 2018. Presently he looks after Corporate Affairs and Risk Management in GAIL.

Mr. Vinod Kumar Mishra is working in the capacity of Director (Finance) in Petronet LNG Ltd. and has vast experience of morethan 29 years post qualification.

He is Chartered Accountant and also hold Degree in Law and MBA.

Out of 29 years of experience, he served Maharatna Company, GAIL (India) Ltd.for more than27 years and have wide variety of experience in the field of Finance, taxation ,accounting , marketing etc.

During his service with GAIL, he was associated with marketing deptt. in finalising Master Sale & Purchase Agreements (MSPA) for LNG purchase.

Currently the Sr. Vice President (Marketing) with Petronet LNG Limited (PLL), Mr. Wadhwa is an MBA in Financial Management from the University of Delhi, India. He is also a Fellow Member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India.

Starting his career with the fertiliser sector in India, Mr Wadhwa has had stints with the industry as well as consulting. Chambal Fertilisers, GAIL (India) Ltd and CRISIL Advisory have been his past employers. His association with PLL goes back to the days when the company was formed in the year 1998.

Mr. Wadhwa has handled assignments relating to LNG agreements – both on the buy as well as the sell side. He has covered shipping agreements and has had an interest on the regulatory side of the business. He has also been responsible for raising large sums of money from various domestic and international financial institutions. Gas contracts, pricing and regulation in India has been an area of interest and knowledge dissemination in the form of lectures at various forums and conferences - both domestic and international.

Mr. Wadhwa’s current role at PLL includes looking after the LNG & Gas Marketing functions. As a project manager for Small Scale LNG, a project to introduce LNG as an automotive fuel is being conducted under his supervision. He is ably supported by a dedicated team of professionals.

He isformer CEO Gail Gas Limited & former Chairman, Kerala GAIL Gas Ltd. He has been the author of many a Joint Ventures in the Indian downstream Gas sector in the states of Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. He has been Instrumental in bringing in the concept of FSRU being worked at & by GAIL Gas joint venture APGDC where he was the Director.

He has been the Director on the Board of Directors of Mahanagar Gas Ltd (a Joint venture of GAIL and British Gas),CUGL, and Vadodara Gas Ltd (a Joint venture of GAIL Gas and Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMSS)),Executive Director (Marketing) Gas, Polymers, Liquid & Hydrocarbons and City Gas in GAIL (India) Ltd. He was Officiated as Chairman of the Natural Gas Society. 2013-14.

More than 35 years of experience in two of India Maha Ratna National Companies-BHEL and GAIL. His last engagement prior to retirement was the CEO of GAIL Gas Ltd. He is a Post Graduate from Xavier Labour Relations Institute,(XLRI) Jamshedpur and has done his graduation in Physics from the University of Delhi.

Technology development and Engineering solution to all land-based and floating LNG& LPG solutions including FSRUs, FSRPs, LNG Carriers and related technologies. Engineered Jetty Based FSRU Terminal, Small Scale FSRU and completed Feasibility Studies of Terminals & Transportation for projects in India and South-East Asia

Ashish Dimri has been in the natural gas industry for 16 years. He began his career in this industry with Gujarat Gas when LNG was yet to arrive in India. In his 7 years with GGCL, he handled the retail industry segment and closely observed as the gas market & CGD sector evolved. He subsequently joined Inox India where he worked for almost 10 years. During his stint with Inbox, he promoted & marketed small scale LNG solutions to the industry. He is presently a visiting faculty at Faculty of Management Studies, MS University of Baroda.

Mr. Nayan PANDYA is Promoter/Director of Cryogas Industries Group of Companies. He established his first company, namely, IWI Cryogenic Vaporization Systems (India) Private Limited in 1998, which designs, manufactures and supplies all kinds of Cryogenic Vaporizers in India and around the world. These Vaporizers were developed initially for the Indian market as import substitute. Today Cryogas Industries Group has several manufacturing facilities and designs of several cryogenic equipment like Heated and Ambient Cryogenic Vaporizers, Vacuum Insulated Pipelines, Vacuum Insulated Cryogenic Storage & Transport Tanks, Microbulk & Minibulk Cryogenic Cylinders, Cryogenic Pumping Solutions, complete turnkey backup solutions as well as LNG Regas and LCNG Stations.

On 31.03.2018 LNG Express India Private Limited, a Group Company of Cryogas Industries commissioned India's first LCNG Station in the city of Vadodara.

Cryogas Equipment has also developed LNG Dispensing Solutions for Dual Fuel application for a mining company in Madhya Pradesh to replace diesel by LNG + diesel dual fuel on 55 Nos. of 225 MT payload dumper trucks. This is a completely indigenous development. Cryogas Equipment is also installing several LNG Regas and LCNG Stations all over India.

Jai Tiwari has extensive experience in the oil & gas industry. He specializes in the areas of oil & gas market strategy, operations, pricing, trading and commercial aspects. He has played an active role in the strategy and policy formulation for leading Indian and global oil & gas companies. Prior to joining IHS, he worked as Associate Director, Strategy & Operations with KPMG; Commercial Advisor with BP where he extensively worked in the fields of gas and LNG. He also worked with BG Group in commercial roles for its upstream and city gas businesses.”

Vidur joined IHS Markit, Gurgaon office in July'17 as a Senior Analyst, South Asia PGCR team.

Prior to joining IHS Markit; he was working as Manager – Gas Business Development & Projects with Venerable LNG Pvt. Ltd. (VLNG), where his job roles and responsibilities included Market Research & Analysis, Business and Financial Analysis of Natural Gas/LNG infrastructure projects across major and minor sectors of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

Initiated bottoms up demand study of Gas across Eastern and Southern India market, Feasibility study of Small - Mid Scale LNG business in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

Vidur holds a degree in Chemical Engineering with committed focus on Oil & Gas and Power projects.

Gurpreet is Managing Director at ICF in the New Delhi office and has more than 17 years of experience in the global gas and LNG sectors. He has advised global oil and gas majors on commercial and economic feasibility studies, UK and continental gas market studies, European gas utilities on liberalization, gas sourcing transmission and storage business, LNG market studies etc. He has experience in evaluating and structuring private and PPP projects in India, West Africa, Russia and Indonesia in the oil & gas domain. In his professional career as a consultant, he has worked on consulting engagements for some of the largest International energy majors on issues across the gas value chain. He has gained in-depth understanding of the Global oil and gas business and developed key functional skills like commercial and economic evaluation of projects, due diligence, fundraising and deal closure.

Ankit is a Senior Associate with ICF with strong academic background and more than 9 years of experience in the natural gas industry and has experience of working in industry, industry body and consultancy. He graduated from IIT Roorkee and he has project management experience with an in-depth knowledge of gas & LNG industry, LNG shipping, floating regas, renewable (solar) etc. With his experience in GAIL, he has wide experience developing RfPs considering the aspects of public procurement procedures. He has been involved in drafting and discussions in long term charter party agreements, commercial agreements, MoUs, joint venture agreements and term sheet and terminal capacity usage agreements etc.

Presently working as Manager-LNG Projects involved with Dhamra LNG project. Having More than 8 years of experience in small scale supply chain including projects, supply chain & logistics and business development. Involved with SSLNG supply to industries located in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu & South America etc. Also involved with development of CGD projects.

Rakesh Jain, Associate Director, Feedback Infra, has worked in sectors such as Gas, City Gas Distribution, LNG/FSRU, CBM, LPG, Power (Conventional/Renewable), Coal & Mining, Ports & Logistics, Electric Vehicles (Urban Mobility), Alternate Fuel Technology, Solid Waste Management, etc. His areas of activity included Business Planning & Strategy development, Due Diligence, PPP Transaction Advisory, Contract Negotiation, Supply Chain Assessment, Regulatory & Commercial Advice, Pricing and Demand assessment, Performance Improvement, Stakeholders consultation, interaction with Government, Regulatory Agencies, Lenders, Multilateral Funding agencies, etc. Prior to Feedback, he has worked with Coal India Limited, Government of Bihar (Bihar Administrative Services), Fieldstone Private Capital Group and KPMG.

Some of the clients he has worked with are IndianOil, Oil Tanking, HPCL, BPCL, L&T, RIL, OIL, ONGC, IGL, MGL, MGL, Adani Ports & Logistics, GAIL, CLP, IMC, Galway Energy Advisors, BP, Dart Energy, GSPL, Neyveli Lignite, Cairn India, Adani Gas, Sumitomo, Tata Power, APTransco, Lafarge, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, State utilities such as MSEDCL, Mahagenco, JSEB, CSEB, various Private Equity Investors including General Atlantic, Chrys Capital, ICICI Venture, NIIF, TPG, India Equity Partner, L&T Infra Finance, equipment manufacturing companies, etc. Besides the energy sector, he has worked in other infrastructure sectors such as Water, Transport, Tourism, Industrial Parks, Urban Infrastructure and IT/Telecom. Has presented papers and presentations in various seminars and conferences, both in India and overseas, on topics related to Energy, Gas, Coal, Alternate Energy Sources, Disruptive Energy Technology such as Energy Storage and new applications of Renewable Energy, LPG, Urban Infrastructure, Electric Vehicles, PPP issues and challenges, etc. He has also been exposed to the African and South East Asian market.