Bhattacharya named OVL operations director

July 5, 2012
Shyamal Bhattacharya has been named director (operations) at ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL), the international operations subsidiary of state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp. of India.

Shyamal Bhattacharya has been named director (operations) at ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL), the international operations subsidiary of state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp. of India.

An ONGC veteran, Bhattacharya most recently has been head of the Institute of Reservoir Studies, Ahmedabad, leading a team of about 250 geoscientists planning development schemes for ONGC oil and gas fields across India.

A petroleum engineering graduate of the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, he is a 2011-12 distinguished lecturer of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

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