• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Sanjeev Kumar

Gujrat State Petroleum Corporation Ltd.

Managing Director

Shri Sanjeev Kumar, IAS  is Managing Director of the Company. He has done B. Tech (Hons.) from I.I.T. Kharagpur and Masters in Public Affairs from Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA. He has very rich knowledge and wide experience of working in various Government Departments and Public Sector Undertaking. He has held distinguished positions in Government of Gujarat including Collector Kheda & Gandhinagar. He has vast experience in Finance Department wherein he has served as Addl. Secretary (Budget), Secretary (Expenditure) and Secretary (Economic Affairs). He was Managing Director of Gujarat State Investment Limited. He has also served as Director on the Board of various Companies including Gujarat State Financial Services Ltd, Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation, Gujarat State Electricity Corporation, Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation, Gujarat Urban Development Company Limited , Gujarat State Transport Corporation Ltd, Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board, Diamond Research and Mercantile City Ltd, Urban Ring Development Corporation Ltd, Dholera Industrial City Development Ltd.

Sessions With Sanjeev Kumar

Wednesday, 11 March

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (CST) / -

    India: Creating a new natural gas economy
    Upstream Oil & Gas

    India is promoting a gas-based economy and increasing the share of natural gas in its energy base from 6.2% to 15% by 2030. Investments are planned for building terminals, pipelines, and city gas infrastructure. The size of the Indian gas market may range from US$150 to US$250 billion over a decade, potentially reaching 70% of India’s population with natural gas infrastructure spreading to 50% of its land. Within midstream, pipelines are being built and funding options are available to incentivize gas pipelines to new areas. How can natural gas be a key tool to achieve India’s challenge of energy security and energy sustainability? What incentives should government provide to gas-based power plants? How can gas-based thermal power plants play a balancing role in infusing 450 GW of renewable capacity by 2030? What carbon cost mechanism should be added to the cost of coal-powered generation? What are global best regulatory and market development practices to grow the gas market?