Republic World | ETEnergyworld Annual Gas Conclave: Oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri to address industry leaders

Dec 04,2022

The ETEnergyworld Annual Gas Conclave & Awards 2022, the mega initiative of the Economic Times, will kickstart on Monday with participation from the who's who of the Indian and the global Oil & Gas industry, and the Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri addressing the industry leaders.

The two-day physical event, the largest such initiative on the Oil & Gas industry from the house of The Economic Times, is being held this year at The Taj Palace
Hotel over 5-6 December. 

The event is being organised by ET in partnership with AG&P, Shell, Pipeline Infrastructure Ltd, Tubacex, SENSIT Technologies, South Asia Gas Enterprise, Copperleaf, Seros Energy, GarudaUAV, Indian Gas Exchange, and Jyotech. It is a premium platform for the leaders of the industry to discuss and debate upon some of the most pressing challenges of the gas industry, share experiences from their domain.

The event comes at a time the government has taken major policy steps to boost the investor sentiment in the Oil & Gas industry to boost India's domestic production, bring pricing clarity and ensure energy access for the masses.  Puri, who is the Chief Guest at the Conclave, would set the tone of the discussion in his speech, kickstarting the inaugural session here in the presence of the top CEOs, policy makers, industry executives, public sector officials, researchers and other key stakeholders belonging to the gas industry.

Apart from Puri, the inaugural session would witness keynote addresses by Ashutosh Karnatak, Member, Petroleum & Natural Gas, APTEL and Former CMD, GAIL India; and R K Srivastava, Director (Exploration) and CMD (additional charge), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC).

The key highlights of the first day include Special Addresses by Vartika Shukla, CMD, Engineers India, and Rohit Pande, Country Manager, India, Copperleaf Technologies, apart from two Fireside Chats with Akhil Mehrotra, MD & CEO, Pipeline Infrastructure and D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, Vivekananda International Foundation and Former Indian Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The first day of the event would also host four panel discussions on the topics - Driving Economic Growth and Energy Security via Gas amid Geopolitical Uncertainty, India’s Gas Infrastructure: Making the most of a $66 billion opportunity, City Gas Distribution: Ramping up Progress, and Accelerating India's E&P Potential: What does the Future Hold?.

Key speakers in the panel discussions include Pankaj Sharma, Additional Director - D&ES, PPAC; S K Jain, Director (Marketing), BPCL; Nakul Raheja, Country Head, Shell Energy India; Abhilesh Gupta, MG & CEO, AG&P Pratham; Ajay Sambrani, MD, Tubacex Asia Pacific; Ashish Agarwal, MD & CEO, Seros Energy; D K Sarraf, Former Chairperson, PNGRB; S P Singh, CEO, Adani Total Private Ltd; V K Mishra, Director (Finance), Petronet LNG; Ashu Shinghal, ED, GAIL; Raman Chadha, CEO, GAIL Gas; Sanjay Kumar, MD, IGL; S K Jha, ED & Head - CGD, IOC; Suresh Manglani, CEO, Adani Gas; Hardip Rai, CEO, THINK Gas; Dilip Pattanaik, ED - Natural Gas, HPCL, and Chiradeep Datta, COO, AG&P Pratham.

Day 1 of the event will also witness participation from other key speakers including Manas Kumar Sharma, Director (Exploration & Development), Oil India; C Laxma
Reddy, ADG (Exploration), Directorate General of Hydrocarbons; Vinod Tahiliani, CEO, India Gas Solutions and VP - India Growth, Integrated Gas & Power, bp;
Pankaj Kalra, CEO, Essar Oil and Gas Exploration and Production; and Elango Pandarinathan, MD, Hindustan Oil Exploration Company. 

The first day of the event would also have the ET Annual Gas Awards 2022 ceremony in the evening, which will begin with a Special Address by Jury Chair, Oil & Gas etenergyworld annual gas conclave hardeep singh puri ET Annual Gas Conclave annual gas awards oil & gas industry etagc ag&p Anil Razdan, Former Secretary - Ministry of Power and Former Additional Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. The Awards Felicitation ceremony would follow, closing the curtains on the Day 1 proceedings. 

Day 2 (6 December) would begin with a Guest of Honour Address by V K Saraswat, Member, Niti Aayog on Policy Prescriptions to turn India's dream to develop Hydrogen Economy a Reality, followed by three exclusive panel discussions on topics - Hydrogen in India’s Energy Mix: Getting to 5 MT by 2030; LNG Market Outlook - Time for Reassessment; and Decarbonising Hard to Abate Sectors: New Fuels, Old Aspirations. 

Other key highlights of the second day include individual presentations/addresses by Daniele Fogale, Director EMEA, SENSIT; Deepak Mehta, Head - Business Development, Indian Gas Exchange; and Anit Mishra, Vice President, GarudaUAV Soft Solutions.

Some of the key speakers participating in the discussions include Mohit Bhargava, CEO, NTPC REL; Bimal Jindal, Head - Green Energy Development, Larsen & Toubro; Anurag Pandey, VP, Hydrogen Value Chain, New Energy, Reliance Industries Ltd; Sandeep Kashyap, COO, ACME Group; A K Balyan, Chairman & Director, Carmine Energy Pte and Former MD & CEO, Petronet LNG Ltd; Sumit Kishore, ED (Gas Marketing), GAIL India; Snigdho Majumdar, ED, EIL; Rangan Banerjee, Director, IIT Delhi; Shankar Venugopal, VP, Mahindra & Mahindra; and Rita Roy Choudhury, Managing Partner and Chief Executive - Climate Change & Sustainability Services Business, ECube Investment Advisors.