Mr. Akshay Kumar Singh, (MD & CEO), Petronet LNG Limited (PLL). Petronet LNG Limited handles nearly 34% of India’s Natural Gas needs and about two-thirds of total country’s LNG imports. Under his visionary leadership, Petronet is pursuing approx. $4 billion expansion projects, including PLL’s first east coast LNG terminal and a ~$2.4 billion petrochemical project at Dahej, for which the foundation stone was laid by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India in 2024. This petrochemical plant will be the first in India to use cold energy integration technology from adjoining existing 17.5 MMTPA LNG terminal and is expected to meet 10% of India’s incremental demand of polypropylene in 2030.

Earlier, he worked as Director – Pipelines at Indian Oil. Under his leadership, various projects worth approx. 6 billion $ consisting of city gas distribution (CGD) projects, laying of approx. 9000 km length of cross country hydrocarbon pipelines for transportation of multiproduct, LPG, Crude Oil and Natural Gas including commissioning of India’s first transnational multiproduct hydrocarbon pipeline to Nepal, (completed eight months ahead of schedule) were taken up on fast track execution mode. Before that, he spent nearly three decades with GAIL (India) Limited handling multiple responsibilities including project planning & execution, R&D, HSE and risk management.

Mr. Singh graduated in Mechanical Engineering from MIT Muzaffarpur, India (1985) and later did M.Tech in Turbo Machinery from South Gujarat University, India (1990).