SOUVENIR COMMITTEE - Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany

Training Programme on “PALYNOLOGY IN FOSSIL FUEL EXPLORATION”
[ September 10-17, 2012 ]
DR. M. SHANMUKHAPPA
GM-Head Geology Group,
KDMIPE, ONGC, 9 Kaulagarh Road,
Dehradun-248195
E-mail: drmshanmukhappa@hotmail.com
Dr. M. Shanmukhappa, General Manager is currently heading the Geology Group of KDMIPE. He
has earned Master’s Degree in Geology from University of Mysore. He did his doctorate in Geology
from M.S. University, Baroda.
He joined ONGC in the year 1980. He has worked for interpreting palynological findings and
integrated with the data of other geological laboratories and established biochronostratigraphy and
depositional models in Cambay, Rajasthan, Krishna-Godavari, Kutch, Saurashtra, Mumbai, Assam &
Assam-Arakan and Satpura basins. He has served the Corporation in various capacities for over thirty
one years at different regions. He has been the Head of Geological Laboratories for last seventeen
years. He has a vast experience in the studies of geological laboratories and applied the acquired
knowledge to hydrocarbon exploration in general and to basin modeling in particular.
He has gained advanced training experience in source rock potential evaluation in Moscow, USSR
and also attended the Advanced Management training course at ASCI, Hyderabad and European
countries viz., France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany.
He is a member of the Research Advisory Council of Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany,
Lucknow and also editor of the Journal The Palaeobotanist. To his credit, he has many technical
papers in reputed national and international journals.
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