Sashi Mukundan is appointed as Country Head of BP India, with effect from 1st March 2009. He has taken over from Dr. Ashok Jhawar, who, after 35 years of service, is retiring from BP.
Sashi Mukundan brings almost three decades of experience across upstream, midstream and downstream hydrocarbon sectors. During his recent tenure as the Country Manager for E&P and Gas in India, BP has established a presence in the upstream sector in India with the award of a Coal Bed Methane (CBM) block in Birbhum district of West Bengal and a deepwater exploration block in the Krishna Godavari basin. He has also been instrumental in starting BP’s LNG trading activities in India.
Sashi Mukundan started his career in California in 1981 with ARCO (BP’s predecessor company) and has worked on a variety of strategic assignments in most of the Asia Pacific region.
BP’s investments in India include Castrol India Limited and Tata BP Solar. In addition, BP India is also operating in the upstream sector with one deepwater and one Coal Bed Methane block. BP also has interest in Biofuels and the trading of crude oil, LNG, oil products and chemicals in India.
About BP:
BP is of one of the world's largest energy companies with operations in more than 100 countries across six continents. The company's main businesses are exploration and production of oil and gas; refining, manufacturing and marketing of oil products and petrochemicals; transportation and marketing of natural gas; and a growing business in renewable, low-carbon and alternative energies. With exploration activities in 29 countries, production facilities in 22 countries across 6 continents and proven reserves of 18 billion barrels of oil and gas, BP is a leading oil and gas explorer. It produces around 3.8 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, refines 2.8 million barrels per day and has a sales revenue of around $285 billion. BP has an unrivalled deepwater experience and technology leadership at its operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Angola and Egypt. BP is also one of the leading producers of coal bed methane in the San Juan Basin in the US and one of the largest gas suppliers for LNG.