Mr. B. Mohapatra joined our company on August 24, 2005 as Country Manager in India. Mr. Mohapatra has in excess of 10 years of Project Management and Petroleum Operation Management experience in India. He has worked on projects (Onshore and offshore) in India, leading the petroleum-engineering and operation groups in the past. He has been involved in preparation of development scenarios, including concept, design justification, AFE and economics, Preparation and review of capital and operating budgets, conceptualization, Co-ordination and execution of exploration activities, Project development justification for all assets. He is Conversant with the various modern & constrained workflow models to manage and operate upstream Oil & Gas projects with minimum risks. He has a thorough exposure on working of JVs under (PSC) Production Sharing Contracts in India. He has been into preparation/negotiations of Joint Operating Agreements (JOAs), service/supply contracts, Gas Sales Agreements, Gas Balancing Agreements, Technical and commercial evaluation of proposals/bids. He has good exposure to Legal provisions, Petroleum Laws, Arbitration Process, negotiation process for settlement of disputes arising out of JOA/PSC. He has managed various Oil field installations, designed & executed many oil field engineering jobs on oil & gas wells and supervised drilling / production operations in his previous assignments. Prior to joining our company, he held Petroleum Engineering and Sr. Management positions with Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Selan Exploration Technology Limited and Larsen&Tubro/JTI. Mr. Mohapatra graduated from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad in 1995 with a B.Tech. degree in Petroleum Engineering and is an active member of SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers). Mr. Mohapatra is a resident of Gujarat, India.