GAIL Director Sanjay Kumar appointed Petronet LNG Managing Director and CEO

Key facts

• Sanjay Kumar, Director (Marketing) of state-owned GAIL (India) Ltd, has been appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Petronet LNG Ltd, effective May 13, 2027.
• Petronet LNG's board cleared the appointment during a 15-minute meeting held on October 2.
• Kumar, aged 59, will take over from the existing CEO A K Singh on May 13, 2027, and will have a five-year term.
• Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), GAIL (India) Ltd, Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) each hold a 12.5 per cent stake in Petronet LNG.
• Kumar has been Director (Marketing) at GAIL since mid-June 2023 and is a mechanical engineer from IIT Kharagpur with over 35 years of experience in the natural gas and LNG value chain.
• Petronet LNG operates India's largest LNG import terminal at Dahej in Gujarat and another terminal at Kochi in Kerala.
• Petronet LNG has a total regasification capacity of 27.5 million tonnes a year, handles about 74 per cent of India's LNG imports and accounts for around 34 per cent of the country's gas supplies.