Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL), the state-owned gas distributor, announced Arun Kumar Singh, Director (Marketing), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) has taken over the additional responsibility as Chairman of the company.
He has replaced P K Gupta, Director (Human Resources), GAIL (India), who has relinquished the charge upon completion of the two-year Chairmanship tenure of IGL by GAIL (India) Ltd.
Singh is a Mechanical Engineer from NIT Patna and is Director (Marketing), BPCL apart from holding additional charge of Director (Refineries) in the company. He is also a Director on the Board of Bharat Gas Resources Ltd, a wholly-owned Subsidiary of BPCL engaged in natural gas business.
Singh is also on the Board of Bharat Oman Refineries Limited, a subsidiary of BPCL engaged in refining business and is serving on the board of Petronet LNG. He had earlier held the position of Chairman, IGL between October 2018 and January 2019.
IGL is a joint venture between GAIL (India), BPCL and the Delhi government. It is the largest Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) distribution company of the country, supplying CNG and Piped Natural Gas (PNG) in Delhi and Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad, Muzaffarnagar and Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh apart from Gurugram, Rewari, Karnal and Kaithal in Haryana.
