India Gas Solutions Names New CEO

Reliance Industries and BP 50:50 joint venture India Gas Solutions (IGS) has appointed Vinod Tahiliani as CEO. The JV is focusing on infrastructure to accelerate transportation and marketing of natural gas within India.

Tahiliani has over 25 years of international experience in the oil and gas business and project financing and joins IGS from BP. For BP, he has developed gas value chain businesses and worked on oil, gas and power developments in India, Angola and Vietnam.

IGS is expected to begin selling imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Indian customers in 12-18 months, Tahiliani told Economic Times. The joint venture is in talks with all the players in the value chain, including customers, suppliers, pipeline owners and the regasification terminal operators, he said.

IGS administers the existing gas sales contracts to customers for production from the Krishna Godavari-D6 block and is actively pursuing opportunities for marketing R-Series gas and LNG imports.