S Bhattacharya takes over as director at OVL

Shyamal Bhattacharya has taken over as the Director (Operations), at ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC).

Bhattacharya, a geoscientist, has held various key positions during his postings at different locations across the country in ONGC, the company said in a statement here.

"A graduate in Petroleum Engineering from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, Bhattacharya has more than three decades of diversified experience in reservoir engineering, reservoir simulation, water flooding, increased oil recovery (IOR) & enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques and reservoir operations," it said.

In his previous role as the Head of Institute of Reservoir Studies, Ahmedabad he was instrumental in leading a team of around 250 geoscientists, facilitating formulation of development schemes of oil and gas fields of ONGC across the country.

"Bhattacharya has been actively involved in oil and gas property evaluation of OVL and associated with many consultancy projects as well," the statement said.