Mangalore : Vijay G Joshi has taken charge as the first Director (Refinery) of Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), a mini-ratna I and ONGC group company. He will be the second functional Director on Board of MRPL.
Fifty eight year old Vijay Joshi has an experience spanning over three and a half decades in the Petroleum Refining Industry. He was earlier serving as Group General Manager, Projects In-charge of MRPL, directly responsible for all Project related activities.
Hailing from Bijapur, he is a product of NITK (then KREC) Suratkal. He post-graduated from IIT, Mumbai in Metallurgical Engineering in 1977. Soon after he joined Indian Oil Corporation Ltd as a Graduate Engineering Trainee in 1977 and opted to join MRPL as Chief Inspector 20 years back.
Joshi’s strategic and visionary thinking and hands-on style of management saw him set up the Engineering and Documentation Departments in MRPL and subsequently without any Project Management Consultant, Joshi led his team to build and commission ISOM and Mixed Xylene Units in the 2004-2006 period.
Having played a key role in Phase I, II (earlier refining units of MRPL) concept to commissioning, Joshi was handpicked to lead the Phase III concept to commissioning team. It may be recalled that MRPL had undertaken an ambitious brownfield expansion Project- Phase III in 2006, strategically designed to deliver multiple benefits ranging from maximisation of light and middle distillate yield and production of BS III & IV compliant autofuels, to production of more value added products like Propylene with conversion facility to Polypropylene, to capacity increase by 3 MMTPA and capability to process “opportunity” crudes that are High tan, Acidic and Heavy. The CDU and VDU of the Phase III, a project estimated at approximately Rs 14,000 crore was commissioned in 2012 and by the year-end all ancillary units are also expected to go online.
He currently also serves on the Board of NMPT as MRPL nominee.
