Dr. Rabi Narayan Bastia

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Dr Rabi holds a Bachelor of Science (1st Class Honours) degree in Applied Geology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India; a Bachelor of Science (1st Class Honours) degree in Petroleum Exploration & Reservoir Management from the Norwegian Technological University, Norway; a PhD in Petroleum/Structural Geology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and a Doctor of Science degree in Petroleum Geology from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, (examined by Alberta University, Canada and Oklahoma University in the USA).

Dr Rabi commenced work as a geoscientist with the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in India and has worked in different capacities and at various locations during his 16 years with ONGC. In 1996, he started the Exploration and Production (E&P) business in Reliance Industries Limited, a member of the Reliance Group, India’s largest private sector enterprise, and his last position was as the Head of the Exploration Management Team for Reliance Industries Limited. The highlights of his career include the gas discovery of the Krishna-Godavari basin in 2002, the Mahanadi Basin gas discovery in North East Coast of India in 2003 and oil and gas discovery in the deep waters of the Cauvery basin in India in 2007. After heading the exploration group of Reliance for more than 16 years, he has currently taken up some very distinguished and challenging international and domestic assignments. He is the global head of exploration in Lime Petroleum Plc. He holds a Director position in Oil Field Instrumentation Pvt. Ltd, India and is the President (E&P) in Oilmax Energy Pvt. Ltd, India. Recently he has taken up an Advisory Board position in Trace Atlantic Oil, Switzerland. Dr Rabi is a director of Synergy Oil & Gas Consultancy Private Limited, a private Indian company. He is also a member of numerous professional institutions such as the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, International Geological Congress, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Society of Geoscientists and Allied Technologist, Indian Geological Congress, Society of Petroleum Geophysicists and the Association of Indian Petroleum Geologists.