New Delhi: Engineers India Limited (EIL) successfully organised a two days intra-industry technical paper writing competition 'Urjaalekh' under the aegis of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoPNG), at its Gurugram Complex during May 30-31, 2022. In the concluding ceremony, EIL's Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) Vartika Shukla EIL awarded the top three presenters in each category in the presence of EIL's Director (HR) AK Kalra.

Among the participating organisations were the mix of Maharatna and Navratna Oil and Gas PSUs namely, BPCL, HPCL, EIL, GAIL, IOCL, OIL and ONGC. The event focused on sharing best practices of the oil and gas sector, emerging trends and innovation in the form of paper presentations under six categories namely: operations, supply chain management, marketing & sales, HSE & quality, finance & human resource management.

Millennials from across the oil and gas PSU industry participated in large numbers and almost 200 abstracts were received out of which after the initial shortlisting, 70 abstracts were sent to tier-I Jury comprising SMEs from participating organisations. Thereafter, 30 abstracts were identified for submission of full papers (approx. 5 papers in each category).

Presentations on the full papers were made before an eminent jury comprising of experts from the industry i.e. former Directors, C&MDs of the oil & gas PSUs and academia and top three presenters were awarded in each category.

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