Mr. Arvind J Morbale

ED - Asset Manager

Neelam & Heera, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd

The Paradigm shift in Oil & Gas Industry subject to the ‘Boom & Bust’ economy and investments that will yield returns has compelled Oil majors to look at innovations and emerging technology adoption in realising the augmented reality. The CHEMTECH Oil & Gas World 2018 will discuss on the changing global oil & gas industry dynamics and find innovative ways to ensure a reliable, equitable and sustainable business model in the sector.

Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva

Former Chairman & Managing Director

ONGC Limited

The substantial demand for energy that the growing economy generates and the significant value of our crude imports in combination provide a compelling reason for us to augment the domestic supplies and that is our biggest challenge today. Our output has been stagnating or plateauing for years now and can be set to be even gradually dipping. There are things that we are doing right now but we should do more to reverse the trend and take the country to the path that defines by increasing oil supplies from domestic sources.

Mr. P Elango

Managing Director

HOEC

While 32% of Indian oil & gas basins have yet to be offered for exploration, 78% of basins, which have been offered for exploration till now in the country, have not fully explored. Higher level of exploration and technology will be the key to catch the unclaimed prize.

Mr. Sanjay Joshi

Country Manager & Managing Director

Aker Solutions

There is no doubt that the whole oil & gas industry is going through a turbulent time and likely to be there for much longer. But at the same time there are a lot of optimisms if you look at it in a different way. Thus we have to prepare ourselves and improve our operational efficiencies and reduce the cost. We need to have a lot of optimisms and good sprit towards the industry.

Mr. S K Moitra

Director (Onshore)

ONGC

As the oil price has come down USD 30 per barrel today, oil & gas production has become a real challenge for all of us. It is our endeavour to see that how do we do to produce the oil below USD 25 per barrel. There is a huge requirement of cost reduction to keep the bottom line of the business.

Ms. Ann Ollestad

Consul General

Royal Norwegian Consulate General

The bilateral trade between India and Norway has been evolving manifold in energy, IT, health and technology sectors as presenting opportunities since last few decades. The partnership enhances India’s flagship programmes such as Make in India, Smart Cities, Clean India, Start-up India and the Sagarmala projects. The recent ‘Ocean Dialogue' between Norway and India was an important tool to bring this cooperation forward.

Mr. Abdo Ahmad

Head of Drilling & Completions (HOD) – Deep Water Projects

Reliance Industries Ltd

Era of Easy oil has gone and the new finds are increasingly in remote geographies and difficult environments, such as deep under water or from unconventional sources like shale oil and shale gas. Though the new findings have adequate supply of O&G for future needs; however, the new projects will be larger, more remote and complex and enabled by innovations and advances in technology. The associate risks are also high, thus the nature of programme management is changing, becoming more complex, involving new partnerships, sharing risks, managing operational risks, etc.

Mr Jayant Malhotra

GM

Schlumberger

To meet today’s business challenges there need to be constant conversations between companies and customers, and companies should move towards technology integration. The factors that would contribute towards a lower cost per barrel are people, technology, risk-sharing, knowledge, and experience.

Mr. George Soman

Team leader / Lead Structural Engineer

Lloyd's Register

With new technologies emerging everyday, many with the same promise of reducing costs and optimising a business’ performance, ways to achieve technological advancement across the industry are now in abundance and oil executives must consider how best to accelerate this innovation to ensure its continued success on a global scale.

Mr.Manav Kanwar

Managing Director

SK Oilfield Equipment Co. Pvt. Ltd

Technology advancements in the upstream oil and gas business have opened up new frontiers, enabled safer operations, enhanced oil and gas recovery from existing fields and increased energy efficiency. In the downstream business, technology has too helped to increase and upgrade the capacity of the oil barrel and has met the increasing demands of environmental legislation.

Mr. Aditya Mukerjee

Business Development Manager

SK Oilfield Equipment Co. Pvt. Ltd.

Intervention free reservoir surveillance and diagnosis is required to minimise the operating expenses and downtime and for timely fashion for a successful well intervention plan in deepwater offshore. Furthermore, multi-lateral well technology that reduces the number of slots requires additional reservoir management to ensure that production is maximized from various zones. All these issues have led to advances in "smart" or intelligent wells, which allow for real-time data gathering of downhole information, and provide completions that can control production from various zones.

Mr. K Balasubramanian

Vice President – IT & PDM, Petroleum E&P,

RIL

Digital technology is not new to the oil and gas Industry. Digital Platform, Digital Oil fields, etc are decade old, connecting remote O&G fields to operation centre to monitor performance and analysis real-time data. However, what is new in the digital space within the oil and gas industry is the emerging digital technologies like; IoT, machine learning and analytics; the change in attitude within the industry which is now considering outsourcing ‘innovation’ to partners because they see the value in digitalization.

Mr. P K Sharma

Director (Operations)

Oil India Limited

Automation is key to the digital oilfield, driving productivity and innovation both onshore and offshore. Early adopters of digital oilfield technologies are already reaping rewards, including improved efficiencies, cost savings and advanced health and safety and environmental compliance, etc.

Dr. Vladimir Navrotsky

Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Power Generation Service, Distributed Generation, Gas Turbine Fleet Director,

Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB

The geographic distribution and remoteness of oil and gas projects presents operators with significant challenges in managing logistics, making sure key parts are available for maintenance and keeping downtimes to a minimum. 3D technologies — printing and scanning — can help energy companies and suppliers reduce costs wherever possible while maintaining or improving quality of products and speed of repair/maintenance activities.

Mr. Amritpal Singh Bamhrah

Account Manager – Oil & Gas

AVEVA Information Technology India Pvt Ltd

Digital assets in oil & gas are not merely photos and rich media stored as digital files – they are literally a means to critical business results.Digital assets are the backbone of the industry across its lifecycle with complete information integrity and continual operational readiness. It is eventually helped to gain insights from their operation and condition data, effectively and efficiently, to improve productivity, and to safely and reliably extend asset life.

Mr. Ali Didanloo

Petroleum Engineering Manager - South East Asia

Schlumberger

The highly volatile and complex industry, oil & gas sector requires maximum yields per barrels. Predictive analytics can enable to help optimize production, operators might consider adopting advanced analytics, which combines engineering, data science, and computing power to enable businesses to forecast yields or maximize industry assets.

Mr. Manesh Alias

Chief Operating Officer

Wrench Solutions Pvt Ltd

As being the most demanding, challenging and exciting engineering and technological advances, a integration of project management with information management is required with the aim to review the project management, improve the decision making process and overall project execution. SmartProject digitizes the project execution process from macro to micro level to integrate all the processes, people and data of a project and organization.

Mr. Satish Palekar

Vice President & Head of Offshore Business Vertical

L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Limited

Integrated approach to field development continues to gain traction – be it Onshore, Offshore or Subsea. Innovative architectures and technologies are the key concepts invented for these developments will drive the emergence of a new generation of onshore and offshore conventional projects that deliver superior profitability in a ‘cheap oil’ environment.

Mr. Ajay Gharpure

VP Offshore Projects – India

Aker Solutions

Subsea market has been one of the few bright spots in the Offshore Oil & Gas Industry globally; however, the downturn forcing operators to re-evaluate the development concepts of various projects and to look for efficiencies and new business models to survive.

Mr. Rakesh Verma

Chief Executive Officer

Simon India

Rapid advancements in technology will continue to engineer further growth in oil and gas. Super computers and complex data processing will enable new discoveries. Smart devices will enable improved operational management and better risk management. Advanced materials will offer safer operations in difficult terrain. Manufacturing technologies will improve the applications of new materials and collaborative technologies will enable new ways of managing complex global projects.

Mr. Uday V Kulkarni

Offshore Business Development Head

Technip India & Offshore Projects Operations Head, Mumbai

Subsea Technologies are continuing to gain traction in the offshore field development; however, new technologies can improve projects economy and accelerate first oil.