The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the appointment of Deepak Gupta, Executive Director (ED), Engineers India Limited (EIL) to the post of Director (Projects), GAIL (India) Limited for a period of five years.  

 

Deepak Gupta is a Mechanical Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering with more than 31 years of rich and diverse experience in the oil and gas sector encompassing Project Management, Construction Management, and Business Development functions. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the PMI, USA.

 

He has comprehensive and extensive experience in project management of Refinery, Petrochemical, and Pipeline Projects from concept to commissioning and has led the execution of several successful projects in India in all modes of project implementation viz. EPC (LSTK), EPCM, OBE and PMC. He has successfully collaborated with multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams across geographies for implementing the highly complex and challenging oil and gas projects. 

 

In EIL, he has been on the forefront in leading the implementation of the multi-billion dollar 650 KBPSD Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical project in Nigeria, the largest single train grassroot refinery in the world, which is also the largest Refinery Complex under implementation in the African continent. Besides this mammoth project, he has also led the implementation of the one of the largest Polymer facilities for HMEL at Bhatinda and the upcoming maiden Refinery Project in Mongolia. 

 

Besides the above, he has made significant contributions as part of team EIL that is credited with the successful implementation of the Petrochemical Expansion Project at Pata for GAIL and the PFCC Unit of MRPL Phase III Expansion Project at Mangalore. 

 

Gupta has authored several papers and books sharing his experiences, feedbacks and ideas for fast track project execution. Several key innovations and initiatives proposed by him are now a part of the best execution practices within the organisation. 

 

His special interests include project execution innovations, petrochemicals, strategy formulation, business growth initiatives, system improvement and digitalisation for fast track project execution.