Ravi Bastia (Author)
Dr. Ravi Nastia, Sr. Vice President, is currently heading the exploration operations at Reliance industries Ltd. reliance is operating several onland and offshore exploration acreages, both in India and abroad, spread over complex geological settings. Under his leadership, many significant discoveries have been made in Krishna Godavari and Mahanadi Basins. Dr. Bastia holds a Ph.D. in Structural geology from IIT-Kharagpur, India and M.S. in Petroleum Exploration from Norwegian Technological University, Norway. To his credit, he has bagged several scientific and professional excellence awards, both in the national and international sphere. Some of his recent awards include the Gold medal during the AEG Conference at Hyderabad in 2006, the National Mineral Award for the year 2003, The Society of Geoscientists & Allied technologists award in 2002 and the best Symposia Speaker Award at Brazil in 2000. He has been the keynote speaker in many international conferences. Dr. Bastia has authored more than fifty publications in several scientific journals and is also a visiting faculty to many Universities.