Mr. N.K. Mitra is a graduate in petroleum engineering from Indian School of Mines and is a well known oil & gas professional from India. Working with ONGC for almost 36 years, he has been credited with many a firsts and has been instrumental in giving many a new directions for oil & gas businesses in India. His views and perceptions are widely acknowledged in industry circle. Mr. Mitra is amongst the few frontrunners in the area of interactive knowledge sharing and mentoring. He has chaired and steered many International and National Conferences and has put forward a number of new perspectives and paradigms for the oil & gas industries through his articles, keynote addresses and presentations.