OIL India CMD R K Dutta gets 'Lifetime achievement award'
Guwahati: Chairman and managing director of Oil India Limited (OIL) R K Dutta has been given the "Lifetime Achievement Award" for his contribution to the hydrocarbon industry and the company itself.

In Dutta's absence, his wife Julie Dutta received the award from Dr R A Chidambaram, principal scientific advisor to the government of India. The OIL CMD is currently in China as a member of a high level Indian delegation.

Other awardees include the late Dhirubhai Ambani, Ratan Tata and Aditya Birla.

Dutta's four decades long experience in the petroleum industry has seen him contributing in both the upstream and downstream petroleum business. Taking over as CMD in May 2002, Dutta has taken a number of initiatives to steer OIL India towards the path of growth. Since he took charge, crude oil sales and gas sales went up by 22 per cent and 30 per cent respectively and there was significant increase in both drilling and seismic work.

OIL India has also formulated its strategic and corporate plan under his leadership to meet the challenges in the deregulated scenario. The company has acquired a participating interest in overseas ventures in four countries in the last two to three years, including winning of two blocks in Libya in consortium with the Indian Oil Corporation.
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A.S. Suresh Babu is new MD for KINFRA
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (KINFRA) has announced the appointment of A.S. Suresh Babu as the managing director of the company for a period of three years.

Suresh Babu, who has worked with the company since 1993, was most recently the managing director of the KINFRA Film and Video Park in Thiruvananthapuram.
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