Brief Biosketch of the Speaker:
Partha Maitra directs strategic planning for the Oil-to-Chemical business at Reliance Industries, including Crude Oil to Chemical or COTC and sustainability. Started his career at Fluor, Houston, working on energy efficiency projects at the ExxonMobil refineries, and modernization projects at the BP refineries, in the US.
Conceptualized the Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals project, prior to Reliance.
Responsible since inception for the project development, business optimization & technology selection for the Jamnagar supersite, with integrated refinery, petrochemicals & gasification. Now focussed on the ‘Net Zero’ journey of Jamnagar.
Partha Maitra has Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, USA, MS from Rice University, USA, and B. Tech. from IIT, Bombay.