New Delhi:Mr. Akshay Kumar Singh has joined as Director (Pipelines) of IndianOil Corporation (IndianOil), the country’s largest commercial enterprise and the top-ranked Indian corporate in Fortune’s ‘Global 500’ listing.Earlier, he was Executive Director in GAIL (India) Ltd.
Mr. Singh will be in charge of IndianOil’s 13,400-km network of crude oil, petroleum product and gas pipelines with a throughput capacity of 94.79 million metric tonnes per annum of oil and 9.5 million metric standard cubic metres per day of gas.
With about 32 years of experience in the petroleum & natural gas sector,Mr. Singh has executed challenging, complex and mega-size cross-country pipeline projects with stiff time schedules and costs. He has substantive experience in design engineering, planning, execution, operations& maintenance streams of the hydrocarbons sector.Mr. Singh is a Mechanical Engineer withMasters in Turbo Machinery.
IndianOil is a pioneer in cross-country petroleum pipelines in the country, and manages one of the world’s largest oil pipeline networks. Projects currently under implementation would further increase the length of the network to about 20,000 km, and throughput capacity to 102 million tonnes per annum.
IndianOil is currently operating City Gas Distribution (CGD) networks, offering CNG for vehicles and PNG for households, in 11 Geographical Areas (GAs) through two joint ventures. In the recent CGD bidding round also IndianOil independently received authorisation for seven GAs and additional nine through joint venture partners.
With due emphasis being given to scaling up of natural gas pipelines, IndianOil is laying a 1,244 km pipeline to reach LNG imported at Ennore near Chennai to Bengaluru as well as Nagapattinam, Tuticorin and Madurai in Tamil Nadu.
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