Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Dec 31: D.S Nanaware has taken the charge of Director (Pipelines), Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), one of India’s largest commercial enterprises and among the leading Indian companies in the Fortune Global 500 list.
Nanaware is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli under Shivaji University, Kolhapur with a rich and varied experience of over 36 years.
He is also the Chairman of IHB Ltd a JV of Indian Oil, HPCL and BPCL which is building the world’s longest LPG pipeline from Kandla to Gorakhpur.
Before he assumed the office of Director (Pipelines), he was ED (Projects) at the Pipelines Division HO. Earlier, as the head of Southern Region Pipelines (SRPL), he was instrumental in starting the prestigious Ennore-Tuticorin Gas Pipeline Project and successfully commissioning its Ennore-Manali and Ramanathapuram-Tuticorin sections.
Nanaware is a keen proponent for ushering a gas-based economy in the country and has played a key role in the formation of two JV companies – GSPL India Gasnet Limited (GIGL) and GSPL India Transco Limited (GITL)- both SPVs promoted by GSPL, Indian Oil, BPCL and HPCL to create a pan India gas pipelines infrastructure.