Dr. Manas Kumar Sharma took charge as Director (Exploration & Development) of Oil India Limited (OIL), India’s second largest national exploration & production company in April 2022. Dr. Manas Kumar Sharma possesses a B.Sc. (Hons) in Geology, M.Tech & Ph.D Degree in Applied Geology.

A skilled geoscientist and operational manager, Dr Sharma carries with him more than 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, he has first hand knowledge & experience in the subsurface & surface domain, both in the working as well as in the senior management level.

Dr. Sharma has conceptualized action plan for various exploration activities leading to identification of prospects for continued hydrocarbon exploration, appraisal of discoveries as well as formulation of development as well as revitalization plan for existing brown fields within Operational Areas in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. He is also instrumental in establishing Industry-Academia collaboration with Universities in the Northeast, which has helped in better understanding of the Assam & Assam-Arakan Basin for carrying out extensive exploration activities by OIL in the Northeast.
Currently, he is leading exploration activities of OIL in 7 sedimentary basins namely Assam Shelf, Assam Arakan Fold Belt, Rajasthan Basin, KG Basin including Category II & Category III basins namely Mahanadi Basin, Andaman Offshore & Kerala Konkan Offshore.