Agrawal, M. D.
Murli D. Agrawal is an Advisor and Director for Downstream COE at TCS’s Oil and Gas Global Practice. He formerly served as General Manager of IT and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of downstream manufacturing for BPCL, India’s second-largest oil major. Mr. Agrawal was an architect of an integrated, real-time refinery information model for end-to-end processes that was implemented at two BPCL refineries. He is now involved in designing strategies for downstream domain excellence studies for global customers and mentoring for comprehensive solution design proposals for global refineries. Mr. Agrawal also serves as VP and President-elect of the Bombay Management Association (BMA), is a member of the Apex Professional University body of senior managers, and is a visiting faculty member at the Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM), which is part of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai.
Business Trends: Smart refineries—Leveraging data for operational intelligence
In the highly competitive, capital- and asset-intensive oil and gas industry, demand is growing for the implementation of information technology (IT) practices covering the following functional requirements.
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