Shri V. P. Mahawar
Director (Onshore)
Mechanical Engineer
ONGC
India
Biography
Shri V. P. Mahawar has taken over as Director (Onshore), ONGC on 01.08. 2015. Shri Mahawar is a Graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Pandit Ravi Shankar Shukla University, Raipur. He joined ONGC as Driller in the year 1982. He is the first sub-sea engineer of ONGC. He was awarded as CMD’s Young Executive of the year in 1987 and CMD’s Manager of the year award in the year 1999. He has 33 years of oil field experience in various capacities across entire spectrum of ONGC. He pioneered in establishment of Well Control School at Institute of Drilling Technology (IDT), Dehradun, which has been imparting training to ONGCians and oil personnel from Indian as well as foreign oil companies, in understanding the well control techniques & equipment leading to upward change in drilling fraternity’s skill & knowledge. Shri Mahawar is a veteran of numerous Blow-out control jobs and an expert in handling the complicated well control problems. He has authored and developed “Well Control Manual for Offshore Operations” as part of the team to develop OISD Standard 174 for Well Control Practices.
Research Interest
· Material chemistry · Mineralogy and Petralogy · Industrial and Engineering chemistry · Chemical Engineering · Applied and Advanced Chemistry
