Board Members
Shri A.K.Hazarika, Director (Onshore), ONGC
Shri. A. K. Hazarika, who is Chairman of the OTBL Board is a 1st class graduate in mechanical engineering from Assam Engineering College, Guwahati. He joined ONGC as Graduate Trainee in 1976. He remained in Assam upto 1989 at various important positions with increasing complex responsibilities. He was then transferred to Madras (now Chennai) and given the responsibility of In-charge-Cementing Services for entire ONGC. Due to his meritorious work, he was declared Drilling Engineer of the year 1990. He was transferred to Mumbai in 1995. During the tenure at Mumbai, he was declared as Head of Multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to work on prestigious project of Mumbai high redevelopment projects (North & South). Due to his excellent contribution in Drilling Services he was elevated to the position of Head of Well Services Mumbai in April 2002. Mr. Hazarika rose to the position of Executive Director and Chief-Well Services from January 2003, establishing his leadership and people managing abilities. Mr. Hazarika was selected by Govt. of India to the position of Director (Onshore) in September 2004 at Delhi where he is presently looking after all the onshore operations of ONGC spread over the entire country. There are 7 Onshore Assets in India. Out of which 6 Assets are producing oil with associated gas and one Asset is producing only gas. Total Onshore oil production is about 8 mmt/year and gas about 6 billion m3/year. ONGC is also pursuing production of CBM gas from unminable coal seams. ONGC has got 9 CBM blocks in Onshore areas and exploration and production of CBM gas in 3 blocks is under progress. For exploiting CBM gas, ONGC is engaging state of art technology of drilling horizontal wells through various coal seams to produce maximum amount of gas from each well. ONGC has a plan to produce 1240.95 mmscm of CBM gas during XI plan (2007-2012).Mr. Hazarika is a member of Governing Council of Petroleum Federation of India (Petro-Fed) and also elected as Chairperson of SPE Chapter of Delhi for 2007. Mr. Hazarika who briefly held the position of acting Chairman and Managing Director, ONGC, is also presently holding the responsibilities as Director (Incharge), Health, Safety & Environment of ONGC’s operations.
He is also heading the Carbon Management group (CMG) l of ONGC pursuing different CDM projects through reduction of GHG emissions mainly CO2 & Methane. Under his leadership already 3 projects have been successfully registered in UNFCCC and another 14 projects are in various stages of registration.