Pankaj Kumar Goswami has taken over as Director (Operations) on the board of Oil India Limited as on 1st June, 2020. 

 

Prior to that Goswami was holding the position of Chief General Manager (Projects) of the company at field headquarter at Duliajan, Assam. As Chief General Manager (Projects), Goswami looked after implementation of large number of complex and high-value projects of the company related to production of oil & gas.

 

Pankaj Kumar Goswami led a team for development of gas field in company's most promising structures in upper Assam. By virtue of his rich experience of working in production of oil & gas from India's oldest and highly matured oilfield of Naharkatia in Northeast India, he carries the distinction of being a hardcore oil man with deep learning on geology, drilling and most importantly the social fabric of a difficult exploration terrain of the states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

 

Goswami joined the company in the year 1988 and holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Assam Engineering College, Guwahati and has also completed an advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Maintenance Management in 2001. With more than 31 years of experience in oil & gas production activities at Assam & Assam-Arakan Basin in Northeast India, Goswami has conceptualized many out- of-box ideas including implementation of produced water re-injection scheme and study of corrosion in vertical and horizontal flow regime of gas wells having' Carbon dioxide thereby resolving serious safety issues.

 

Pankaj Kumar Goswami has joined in place of Pramod Kumar Sharma who has ceased to be Director (Operations) of the company on May 31, 2020 on attaining the age of superannuation.