IOC director A K Singh to head Petronet LNG
Financial Express, Delhi   09-Nov-2020

Indian Oil Corp (IOC) director-pipelines Akshay Kumar Singh will be the new managing director and chief executive of the country''s biggest gas importer, Petronet LNG Ltd.

Singh replaces Prabhat Singh who completed his five-year term on September 13.

"The board of directors of PLL has selected Akshay Kumar Singh for the post of MD & CEO, PLL in its board meeting held on November 4, 2020," Petronet LNG Ltd (PLL) said in a brief notice on its website.

The selection marks Singh''s return to the gas business. He was executive director at state-owned gas utility GAIL India Ltd before joining the IOC board in 2018.

A mechanical engineer from MIT, Muzaffarpur (Bihar) and a post-graduate from South Gujarat University, Singh has about 34 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.

Of the 11 candidates called for the interview by the panel, 10 turned up including V K Mishra, director finance and interim MD at PLL, GAIL director finance A K Tiwari, ONGC Videsh Ltd director finance Vivekanand, ONGC director finance Subhash Kumar, Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd managing director SN Pandey, GAIL director marketing ES Ranganathan, OIL director HR Biswajit Roy, Indraprastha Gas managing director A K Jana and Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) chief general manager Amit Garg.