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The PetroFed pavilion at the Petrotech-2009 Shri A. K. Arora was also called upon to chair a
exhibition at Pragati Maidan was inaugurated by Technical Session during the conference at Vigyan
Shri S. Sundareshan, Additional Secretary, Bhavan on January 13, 2009 on 'Emerging Energy
Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas on January Options – 2 (CTL/GTL/BTL)'. The keynote speaker
11, 2009. during the session was Dr. Jennifer Holmgren,
UOP, LLC, USA who spoke on Advances in Pyrolysis
PetroFed actively assisted in the organisation of
Petrotech-2009 international oil & gas conference
& exhibition at New Delhi. The Director General,
PetroFed, Shri A. K. Arora was a member of the
Steering Committee. The Director (Comm. &
Technology. The other speakers were Shri E.
Valotti, ENI India Limited on the GTL approach; Dr.
Girish K. Chitnis, ExxonMobil on production of
gasoline from coal; and Dr. Sudip Maity, Central
Institute of Mining & Fuel Research on liquid
hydrocarbon production from coal, biomass and
Mktg.), PetroFed, Shri Y. Sahai was on the three
member panel of judges to select the best
exhibitors in various categories at the exhibition.
Shri S. Sundareshan, Additional Secretary, Ministry of
Petroleum & Natural Gas inaugurating PetroFed
pavilion at the exhibition. On his right is Shri S. Behuria,
Chairman, PetroFed and Chairman, IndianOil and on
his left Shri A. K. Arora, DG, PetroFed.
Events
PetroFed in Petrotech-2009
syngas.
A view of the PetroFed pavilion.
Workshop for Academia on SHE
A workshop on 'Safety, Health & Environmental Inaugurating the workshop Prof. S. C. Saxena,
Management in Hydrocarbon Industry' was Director, IIT, Roorkee stressed on the need for
organised by the Petroleum Federation of India in education and training on SHE aspects and their
association with the Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust inclusion in the chemical engineering curricula of
(LKMT) and the Department of Chemical institutions. He expressed the hope that the M-
Engineering of IIT, Roorkee from January 22-24, Tech programme in Industrial Pollution
2009. The three-day workshop at IIT, Roorkee Abatement at IIT, Roorkee will help in bridging the
aimed to provide inputs on latest developments to
teaching faculty members of technical institutions
gap in this area.
in north India on the extremely important subject
of safety, health & environment in the
hydrocarbon industry.
In his presidential address, Shri A. K. Arora,
Director General, PetroFed and Trustee, LKMT
emphasised the need for regular updation of